verified2015-11-07
AncestryAncestry breach
ancestry.com · 297,806 records compromised
Records
298K
Breach date
2015-11-07
Domain
ancestry.com
Data classes
2
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.
Compromised data classes· 2
Email addressesPasswords
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.