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MyHeritage breach leaks 92 million users' details

By a Staff Writer on Jun 6, 2018 11:46AM
MyHeritage breach leaks 92 million users' details

Says family tree and DNA information safe.

A security breach at family networking and genealogy website MyHeritage leaked the data of over 92 million users. The breach took place on October 26 last year, and consisted of the email addresses and hashed passwords of users who signed up to the website up to the date of the breach, ...

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