Public breachBreachXposedOrNot· 1 Nov 2015
Ancestry
Domain: ancestry.com
What happened
Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy company, experienced a data breach in 2015. In this incident, data including usernames, email addresses, and passwords were compromised. The exact number of affected users is not clear. It's noteworthy that user data was reportedly stored as bcrypt hashes, a secure encryption method that makes it challenging for attackers to extract usable information.
Breach facts
- Records exposed
- 297,916
- Sensitive
- No
- Industry
- Miscellaneous
- Data exposed
- Email addressesNamesPasswords
This page summarises publicly reported breach metadata for awareness. For account recovery or incident response, use the official guidance from the affected service.
Breach data provided by XposedOrNot.