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Re:A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs... by snypher on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:47PM (#49443611)
>Blackstone brought in a Facebook executive to run its genealogy business, and gamified Find A Grave for engagement/revenue purposes

Well yeah, pretty much?

Re:A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs... by tptacek on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:22PM (#49443860)
My problem here isn't Blackstone (unless we're talking about housing, where anti-Blackstone slopulism will set me off, because I'm a housing activist, IDGAF about PE), it's that people have a weirdly high opinion of pre-change-of-control Ancestry.com. Ancestry is terrible! This is all highly on brand for Ancestry, the Experts Exchange of geneology.