Data breach
Ancestryancestry.com
297 806 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2015-11-07.
Breached2015-11-07Added to HIBP2017-12-24 UTCUpdated by HIBP2017-12-24 UTCAccounts297 806Domainancestry.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
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.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Passwords
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC