A hacker or hackers have accessed nearly seven million profiles of 23andMe customers, a spokesperson for the genetic testing firm told CNN on Tuesday, including in some cases users' ancestry reports, zip codes and birth years.
In the case of 23andMe, the hackers reused old usernames and passwords from other websites to break into 23andMe customer accounts - a rudimentary but effective technique called credential stuffing.
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