Jessica Durando

USA TODAY

The journalists behind the Panama Papers scandal released a massive, searchable archive Monday with information on more than 200,000 offshore entities involved in the unprecedented leak.

What does the new data include?

The release contained the names of more than 360,000 people and companies tied to off-shore accounts, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The data covers at least 36 Americans accused of fraud and other financial crimes.

The data is the latest step in the international fallout after April's release of the Panama Papers, the massive leak of documents from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, which helps the world's rich and powerful hide financial assets and dealings.

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What were some of the major revelations from the initial leak?

Iceland has a new prime minister: Sigurdur Ingi Jóhannsson. The political upheaval came days after Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, 41, stepped aside following disclosure of controversial offshore investments.

The documents revealed Gunnlaugsson and his wife held about $4 million in bonds in three major Icelandic banks through a secret British Virgin Islands shell company. That posed a conflict of interest for him because Gunnlaugsson had negotiated a deal for Iceland's bankrupt banks at the same time that he had investments in those banks.

British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted that he profited from his late father's offshore investment revealed in the Panama Papers leak, according to British newspapers.

Cameron sold his stake in the fund for $42,000 four months before becoming prime minister, The Guardian reported. Cameron said he and his wife, Samantha, held 5,000 units in the Blairmore Investment Trust, created by his father, from 1997 to January 2010, the Telegraph reported. His office said Cameron, his wife and children do not benefit now from any offshore funds.

The papers also alleged a billion-dollar money laundering ring run by a Russian bank tied to associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin has repeatedly denied any involvement.

The Panama Papers ensnared two bankers: Austria's Michael Grahammer, CEO of lender Hypo Landesbank Vorarlberg, stepped down, and Bert Meerstadt, a member of Dutch bank ABN Amro’s supervisory board, also said he would step down after his name was found on company papers that linked him to a firm in the British Virgin Islands established by the Panama law firm.

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Why you should care: The leak shows how the rich and powerful exploit offshore tax shelters. It also reveals a decades-long pattern of global corruption, including maneuvers by major banks to create hard-to-trace companies.

World leaders or associates who have publicly embraced anti-corruption platforms lurk behind the scenes. As Vice put bluntly in April, "The politicians who have taken and made bribes, dodged taxes, and amassed fortunes of unimaginable scale are your politicians."

Need a refresher? Here is some background on the leak:

The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung obtained the 11.5 million files from an unknown leaker and shared them with the Washington, D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The source of the leak, still publicly known only as "John Doe," wrote an 1,800-word missive for Germany's newspaper, the first media outlet to accept the documents. The source wrote that he has never worked for any government or intelligence agency, directly or as a contractor. Instead, the source simply had access to the documents and understood the level of criminality they exposed.

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The leak dwarfs the 1.7 million documents taken by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed details of the U.S. spy agency's surveillance efforts. The NSA release amounted to 15% of the number of documents involved in the Panama Papers investigation.

While offshore companies are not illegal, they can be used to hide wealth or illicit activity, such as tax evasion or money laundering.