#23andMe

#23andMe

Financial troubles and plateau due to one-time DNA ancestry test offering at 23andMe

Company broadening partnerships beyond GlaxoSmithKline to leverage DNA database and generate more revenue [ more ]

Genetic testing company 23andMe has revealed more details about a data breach that occurred in October, but the situation remains unclear and creates uncertainty for users.

Hackers were able to access a small percentage of user accounts, approximately 14,000, but the number doesn't include those impacted by data scraping from the company's social sharing service.

The attackers collected the personal data of about 5.5 million people who opted into DNA Relatives and an additional 1.4 million users who had their Family Tree profile information accessed. [ more ]

Hackers targeted 23andMe customer accounts for five months before being detected

6.9 million users' data was stolen, including names, birth years, and ancestry reports [ more ]

23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent customers from suing the company or pursuing class-action lawsuits.

It is unclear if 23andMe is attempting to retroactively shield itself from lawsuits related to the data breach. [ more ]

Genetics testing firm 23andme and its users were targeted by cybercriminals who leaked or breached millions of user profiles and genetic data records.

The threat actors accessed user accounts through credential stuffing and scraped data from the DNA Relatives feature. [ more ]

23andMe's probe into their data breach has revealed that millions of leaked records originated from just 14,000 accounts.

The breach was enabled through credential stuffing, indicating that users were guilty of password reuse and lack of multifactor authentication. [ more ]

A recent breach at 23andMe leaked data belonging to 6.9 million users

The breach affected around 5.5 million users with DNA Relatives enabled and 1.4 million people with family tree profiles accessed [ more ]

Nearly 7 million people have been affected by a security breach at 23andMe that exposed DNA ancestry information.

Hackers accessed personal data of 0.1% of customers, but also had access to files containing profile information of other users. [ more ]

A data breach at 23andMe affected about 14,000 of its 14 million customers, with hackers accessing profile and health-related information through a credential-stuffing attack.

23andMe believes the threat actor activity is contained and is working to have the publicly-posted information taken down. [ more ]

A proposed class-action lawsuit against 23andMe is expected to include more people in Canada after the company revealed a data breach affecting millions of customers.

The breach exposed delicate personal data, including birth year, geographic location, health information, and DNA profiles.

Experts warn that data breaches like this serve as a warning to individuals considering sharing their sensitive genetic information with testing companies. [ more ]

6.9 million 23andMe users had their data compromised by a hacker, including ancestry and health-related information.

Users who choose to share information with genetically related individuals put even more users at risk of having their data accessed. [ more ]