It has been announced that the MyHeritage database of email addresses and hashed passwords was compromised. It doesn’t look like any real damage was done, but it does give us pause… Are any of you still using the same password for everything? These passwords were hashed, but still… The following was posted at statnews.com:
MyHeritage, one of the nation’s most popular online genealogy sites, said a security breach had affected the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92 million users, raising concerns about the security of more sensitive data that the company collects.
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In a statement issued late Monday afternoon, MyHeritage said there was “no reason to believe” that data other than email addresses and hashed passwords had been accessed without authorization. Family trees or genetic data, it said, are stored on different systems with “added layers of security.”
Read the statement from MyHeritage – posted on their blog June 4, 2018.
Here’s another article, posted at MSN.com.
