Hack Notice

Hack Notice: Ancestry's RootsWeb.com

Ancestry's RootsWeb.com

Description
Ancestry's RootsWeb.com server, which hosts a free genealogical community site, exposed a file containing emails, login information, and passwords of 300,000 users.hile the 300,000 accounts were affiliated with RootsWeb.com's surname heel service that it retired earlier this year, 55,000 of the user names belonged to both the free RootsWeb.com site and also to Ancestry.com, which charges for some of its genealogical services. ��The company noted that 7,000 of the emails and log-in credentials belonged to active Ancestry.com users.RootsWeb does not host sensitive information like credit card and social surety numbers, the company stated, further noting it has no understanding to believe that any lineage systems were compromised.https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/12/23/rootsweb-security-update/

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HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and Ancestry's RootsWeb.com was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

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