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Phishing Family Tree Now: A Social Engineering Odyssey

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Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Date Published: 2017-01-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

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This post evaluates Family Tree Now's privacy and terms, highlights how its publicly accessible genealogical data can be abused for OSINT, and demonstrates a practical social-engineering attack by cloning the site and delivering phishing emails that log victim inputs; the content documents attacker tactics and risks rather than a specific security incident.

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