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Ancestry

Ancestry

mediumHave I Been Pwned
Disclosed

November 7, 2015

3793 days ago

Records

297.8K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Technology

Description

In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as RootsWeb suffered a data breach. The breach was not discovered until late 2017 when a file containing almost 300k email addresses and plain text passwords was identified.

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Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsEmail Addresses
Ancestry Data Breach (2015) - 298K Records | ExposedMap