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I was under the impression that it was compromised logins of users that were used to get into accounts, afaik they weren't actually hacked.
Our two scenarios aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but yours is much more plausible.
That and they link all the genealogy data so the "hackers" got some info on a bunch of people they didn't hack.
Probably not as much info as you can scrape from Facebook about any one of them, but some.
Facebook's intranet servers maybe