Ancestry's RootsWeb.com server, which hosts a free genealogical community site, exposed a file containing emails, login information, and passwords of 300,000 users, Ancestry stated in a blog post over ...

Ancestry.com closes parts of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigates a leaky server that exposed thousands of passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet.

A file containing email addresses and username/password combinations for Ancestry.com has been exposed on a RootsWeb.com server. According to Tony Blackham, chief information security officer at ...

The ancestry and family tree website Ancestry.com revealed last week that data on 300,000 users, including email addresses, usernames, and passwords, was publicly exposed on one of its servers. Tony ...

Ancestry.com has suffered a data leak consisting of 300,000 email addresses, user names and password combinations, according to a blog post by Tony Blackham, chief information security officer at the ...