Ancestry.com closes parts of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigates a leaky server that exposed thousands of passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet.

A file containing email addresses and username/password combinations for Ancestry.com has been exposed on a RootsWeb.com server. According to Tony Blackham, chief information security officer at ...

Ancestry.com has confirmed that a leaky server on RootsWeb, its free community-driven genealogical website, inadvertently exposed a file containing 300,000 usernames, email addresses and passwords ...

The ancestry and family tree website Ancestry.com revealed last week that data on 300,000 users, including email addresses, usernames, and passwords, was publicly exposed on one of its servers. Tony ...

Ancestry.com LLC is the latest company to expose confidential user data to the broader internet. A security researcher discovered a file containing usernames and passwords sitting on a server on ...