Submission + - 300,000 Users Exposed in Ancestry.com Data Leak (freezenet.ca) 2
Dangerous_Minds writes: From a report on Freezenet:
It’s the latest company hit by a data leak. Ancestry.com apparently had 300,000 users e-mail addresses and passwords exposed. The data leak occurred in 2015, but is only coming to light now.
From Threat Post:
The company said RootsWeb doesn’t host sensitive information such as credit card data or social security numbers. It added, there are no indications data exposed to the public internet has been accessed by a malicious third party. The company declined to specify how and why the data was stored insecurely on the server.
It’s the latest company hit by a data leak. Ancestry.com apparently had 300,000 users e-mail addresses and passwords exposed. The data leak occurred in 2015, but is only coming to light now.
From Threat Post:
The company said RootsWeb doesn’t host sensitive information such as credit card data or social security numbers. It added, there are no indications data exposed to the public internet has been accessed by a malicious third party. The company declined to specify how and why the data was stored insecurely on the server.
walks like a duck... (Score:2)
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