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.

Ancestry's RootsWeb.com server, which hosts a free genealogical community site, exposed a file containing emails, login information, and passwords of 300,000 users, Ancestry stated in a blog post over ...

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 ...