Rootsweb Security Update

[AngelFish]

RootsWeb Security Update

https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/12/23/rootsweb-security-update/

"Posted by Tony Blackham on December 23, 2017 in Website

"We want to share an important security update with you.
Last Wednesday, December 20, Ancestry’s Information Security Team received a message from a security researcher indicating that he had found a file containing email addresses/username and password combinations as well as user names from a RootsWeb.com server. Our Information Security Team reviewed the details of this file, and confirmed that it contains information related to users of Rootsweb’s surname list information, a service we retired earlier this year. For those of you who are unfamiliar, RootsWeb is a free community-driven collection of tools that are used by some people to host and share genealogical information. Ancestry has been hosting dedicated RootsWeb servers as a favor to the community since 2000. Importantly, RootsWeb does not host sensitive information like credit card numbers or social security numbers, and is not supported by the same infrastructure as Ancestry’s other brands. We are in the process of informing all impacted customers and will also be working with regulators and law enforcement as appropriate..."

Please see link for the rest of the message as I couldn't fit it all on this post.
Thanks
Angelfish

[PrawnCocktail]

Current message on the site:

Rootsweb is currently unavailable. We have been in the process of improving the site throughout 2017, and as a result of an issue we recently became aware of, we have taken the site offline while we work to resolve it.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but protecting our users’ personal information is our top priority. During this down time, we are working to preserve all data saved to Rootsweb, and hope to have an update within a few weeks.

Update within a few weeks Not exactly a priority, then! My website's on Freepages, that's down as well. Sigh.