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November 7, 2015 Verified Sensitive Record Genealogy

RootsWeb 2015 Data Breach

The 2015 RootsWeb data breach is a credential corpus associated with November 7, 2015, and discovered by Ancestry in 2017 in an old RootsWeb server file.

297.8 Thousand
Reported Records
3
Data Types
High
Severity
Yes
Verification

Exposed Data Types

3
Email addresses
Plain text passwords
Usernames

Additional Information

Added DateDecember 24, 2017
Breach DateNovember 7, 2015
Domainancestry.com
SourceAuthenticated RootsWeb credential corpus with official notice
Last Content UpdateJuly 29, 2026

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Company Information

Company NameAncestry / RootsWeb
SectorGenealogy
CountryUnited States
Websiteancestry.com

Risk Level

High

The reported impact exceeds 100 thousand and falls within the high severity band.

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