norm: ancestrycom operationsUSno LEI · no CIKMax severity: High

Canonical registry

Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.

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Disclosures

1

State AG · 1 jurisdiction

Incidents

—

no linked incident in sample

Max affected reported

300,000

nationwide · State AG CA

Leak-site claims

0

none in sample

Identity resolution

Canonical name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
Normalized: ancestrycom operations— dedupe via name-norm; Microsoft / MSFT collapse to one row
GLEIF LEI: No match
SEC EDGAR CIK: None — not an SEC registrant
Domain: ancestry.com

Disclosure history (1)newest first

🐻California State AGas victim2017-12-23
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. disclosed that a security researcher reported a file containing 300,000 RootsWeb username/email and password combinations. The incident was discovered on December 20, 2017. Approximately 55,000 users had overlapping credentials with Ancestry commercial sites. Ancestry locked affected accounts, took RootsWeb offline, and initiated a forensic investigation. No sensitive financial or government ID data was exposed.