05-06-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com

MyHeritage breach exposes 92M emails and hashed passwords

The genetic analysis and family tree website MyHeritagewas breached last year by unknown actors, who exfiltrated the emails and hashed passwords of all 92 million registered users of the site. No credit card info, nor (what would be more disturbing) genetic data appears to have been collected.
The company announced the breach on its blog, explaining that an unnamed security researcher contacted them to warn them of a file he had encountered “on a private server,” tellingly entitled &
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