In other words, for around five months, 23andMe did not detect a series of cyberattacks where hackers were trying - and often succeeding - in brute-forcing access to customers' accounts, according to a legally required filing...
As 23andMe later admitted, hackers were able to access the accounts of around 14,000 customers by brute-forcing into accounts that were using passwords already made public and associated with email addresses from other breaches. With access to those accounts, the hackers stole data on 6.9 million customers by way of the DNA Relatives feature, which lets customers automatically share some of their data...
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