I was notified today (20/10/22) by email from familysearch.org about an 'unauthorised network intrusion' on 23/3/22 which has been hushed up in order to 'keep the incident confidential to protect the integrity of the investigation.' The company does not indicate whether they were instructed or merely asked by the FBI to do so. They go on to say that ' The forensic investigators who assisted in investigating the security breach have not detected any further unauthorized access or activity since April 3, 2022.' This gives me the impression that there were not just one but at least two breaches of data security as there is a 11-day gap between those two dates. ' This instruction was lifted on October 12, 2022.' It begs the question why familysearch.org waited another 8 days to notify me!This statement: 'We are notifying you and others worldwide whose data may have been affected, even where this is not legally required.' really takes the biscuit. For a whole 7 months we have all been sitting in blissful ignorance of an event which personally affects all site members.I am deleting my account and would encourage others to consider taking the same action.
