Ancestry.com has been under attack by hackers

Ancestry.com has been under attack by hackers

The popular western genealogical resource Ancestry.com says he set about restoring its website after hacker attack, which led to temporary block this week. In Ancestry.com said that the attack started with DDoS-traffic, but did not touch on the user data. The company said that because of the attack were available resources and Acestry.com Findgrave.com. 

The attack began on Monday and continued until today, inclusive. In Ancestry.com page on Facebook says that the company temporarily shut off some of the resource-intensive applications to stabilize the system. Their work will be fully restored after normalization of traffic. 

"No client data is not affected, the staff working on the restoration of a functional network and prevent similar incidents in the future", - said Scott Sorensen. Ancestry.com was originally established in 1983 as a publishing company, and later it changed its specification for the network and started working on genealogy and network projects. At present, the database Ancestry.com has 14 billion records, 2 million is added daily. Works on the resource base of more than 60 million catalogs genealogy.