02-01-2018 16:47 via infosecurity-magazine.com

Ancestry.com Info Exposed by Leaky RootsWeb Server

Ancestry.com Info Exposed by Leaky RootsWeb ServerA file containing email addresses/username and password combinations for Ancestry.com, as well as user names, has been exposed on a RootsWeb.com server.
According to Tony Blackham, chief information security officer at Ancestry.com, the file contains information related to users of Rootsweb’s surname list information, a service the genealogy giant retired earlier this year.RootsWeb is a free community-driven collection of tools that ar
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