MyHeritage Blog
blog.myheritage.com · Company blog · on HN since 2018
MyHeritage, a genealogy and DNA company, posts product news, security notices, historical photo features, and photo tools.
What HN saysHN links it for the 2018 data breach statement, with commenters comparing it to 23andme's response, plus its 1920s photo and video posts.
15HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1MyHeritage Says 92M User Accounts Have Been Compromised4 people · 77 points · first shared 2018 · 30 comments on HN
- 2MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia3 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 3Introducing the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 4Deep Nostalgia: Animate the faces of your loved ones in still photos1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 5Colorize your black and white photos automatically with MyHeritage In Color1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6MyHeritage – Improved LiveMemory1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7A mobile phone in the 1920s1 people · first shared 2023
- 8New myheritage adds two factor authentication 2fa to secure your account1 people · first shared 2018
- 9Good old summertime our ancestors vacations1 people · first shared 2026
- 10Security alert malicious phishing attempt detected possibly connected to gedmatch breach1 people · first shared 2023
What HN people wrote when they linked it
themaninthedark · 2026-07-27
Or maybe just from the cities to the seaside....
https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/08/good-old-summertime-our-ancestors-…
rmason · 2023-08-22
Forget cartoons. Here's a video shot during the premiere of a Charlie Chaplin movie in the 1920's showing a woman walking along holding something to her ear and talking to herself. Looks an awful lot like a cell phone to me.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2010/10/a-mobile-phone-in-the-1920s/
anigbrowl · 2018-06-05
Original link (https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/myheritage-statement-about-a-cyber… was submitted earlier but ignored, presumably because of the vague title. I think it's OK to edit titles for HN where the original is needlessly opaque.
ilamont · 2023-10-24
Thank you for calling this what it is - a hack - despite 23andme's strenuous efforts to paint this as the fault of millions of users (see https://blog.23andme.com/articles/addressing-data-security-concerns) rather than owning the vast technical or management failure that allowed this to continue undetected for months.
Without the risk of a giant fine or, say, jail time, many tech giants can and do get away with managing their data security badly.
That's right. It's happened before, and will continue to happen as long as there are no consequences.
Note that 23andMe is not the first online genealogy service to get hacked:
- In 2017, MyHeritage had 92 million accounts hacked https://www.hackread.com/dna-testing-website-myheritage-hacked-user-ac…
- In 2020, MyHeritage users were targeted in a separate phishing scheme. https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/07/security-alert-malicious-phishing-…
- GEDmatch admitted “all user permissions were reset” in a 2020 attack. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna…
- Ancestry and Ancestry affiliated companies have had multiple security breaches over the past 10 years (https://www.hackread.com/software-firm-leaks-ancestry-com-user-data/)
- Ancestry has also destroyed people's archives when it decided it was no longer profitable or important enough to keep them.…