MyHeritage breach exposes 92M emails and hashed passwords

MyHeritage breach exposes 92M emails and hashed passwords

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/05/myheritage-breach-exposes-92m-emails-and-hashed-passwords/

The genetic analysis and family tree website MyHeritage was breached last year by unknown actors, who exfiltrated the emails and hashed passwords of all 92 million registered users of the site. No credit card info, nor (what would be more disturbing) genetic data appears to have been collected.

The company announced the breach on its blog, explaining that an unnamed security researcher contacted them to warn them of a file he had encountered “on a private server,” tellingly entitled “myheritage.” Inside it were the millions of emails and hashed passwords.