Ancestry.com (Ancestry) was sued on November 30, 2020, in a putative class action case filed in the Northern District of California for “knowingly misappropriating the photographs, likenesses, names, and identities of Plaintiff and the class; knowingly using those photographs, likenesses, names, and identities for the commercial purpose of selling access to them in Ancestry products
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Ancestry.com Server Exposes 300,000 Email Addresses and Passwords
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Breach
Ancestry.com has confirmed that RootsWeb, its free website for individuals to search genealogy, recently had a security vulnerability on its server that exposed a file containing the usernames, email addresses and passwords of 300,000 users. The compromise occurred in 2015.
According to Ancestry.com, most of the accounts that were compromised were from free trial or…