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Ancestry (nov 7, 2015 – jan 1, 0)

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In November 2015, an Ancestry service known as <a href="https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/12/23/rootsweb-security-update/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RootsWeb suffered a data breach</a>. 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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nov 7, 2015
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