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Ancestry.com Data Breach (2015)

Ancestry.com

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Disclosed

January 1, 2015

4103 days ago

Records

300.0K

Confirmed

Root Cause

Human Error

Industry

Technology

Description

Ancestry.com has confirmed that a leaky server on RootsWeb, its free community-driven genealogical website, inadvertently exposed a file containing 300,000 usernames, email addresses and passwords online.