The Infinite Brief

MyHeritage said Monday in a blog post that the breach involved roughly 92 million user accounts that were created through October of last year.

The company said the breach occurred on October 26, 2017. But the service did not learn about the incident until Monday, more than seven months later.

The company said that it does not store customer credit card information.

Sensitive data such as DNA information and family trees are stored on systems that are separate from those that contain email addresses, the company said. “We have no reason to believe those systems have been compromised.”

MyHeritage said it is “taking immediate steps” to hire an independent cybersecurity firm to investigate the breach and determine its scope.