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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: crazydaizy on Wednesday 06 November 24 15:58 GMT (UK)
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I've just received a phone call from someone claiming they are from My Heritage website asking if I need any help with their website as I've not built a family tree on there or anything, and could they help me with anything!
Has anyone else had this call? I'm thinking it's a hoax and politely declined any help.
Strange! ???
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Not sure what the scam would be, but it sounds like something to ignore.
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I had a call a while back - here's my post
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=884475.msg7574474#msg7574474
I've had no further calls but still think its a scam. I think perhaps My Heritage was hacked....
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8 or 10 years ago when I started all this I created a new email address which I have never used for anything else except for my initial MyH research. A year or two later I created a second one which I use for the DNA access. I get a lot of spam coming to the first address. Just this morning I got one claiming to be a reminder for my television license. It contained a totally spurious link to some dodgy website.
Zaph
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from https://haveibeenpwned.com/
MyHeritage: In October 2017, the genealogy website MyHeritage suffered a data breach. The incident was reported 7 months later after a security researcher discovered the data and contacted MyHeritage. In total, more than 92M customer records were exposed and included email addresses and salted SHA-1 password hashes. In 2019, the data appeared listed for sale on a dark web marketplace (along with several other large breaches) and subsequently began circulating more broadly. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to "BenjaminBlue@exploit.im".
Compromised data: Email addresses, Passwords
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That clears it up then!