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Hackers advertise sale of 23andMe data on leaked data forum (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Hackers advertise sale of 23andMe data on leaked data forum::A hacker is advertising millions of "pieces of data" stolen from the family genetics websites 23andMe, according to posts made to an online forum where digital thieves often advertise leaked data.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Note: this was from password stuffing and is only profile data, not genetic.

Your genomics can only be downloaded from a link sent to your email account.

Don't reuse your passwords.

[–] devil_d0c 8 points 1 year ago

Oh no my cilantro aversion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - A hacker is advertising millions of "pieces of data" stolen from the family genetics websites 23andMe, according to posts made to an online forum where digital thieves often advertise leaked data.

23andMe (ME.O) said in a statement Friday that while an unspecified amount of "customer profile information" had been compiled "through access to individual 23andMe.com accounts," the company itself had not been breached.

The statement went on to say that a hacker may have collected passwords stolen from other sites and reused them in a bid to hijack 23andMe accounts.

The technique - known as credential stuffing -- is one reason why cybersecurity experts recommend against using the same password for different sites.

Reuters could not immediately find a way to contact the hacker, at least one of whose posts has since been removed from the forum.

The size of the breach wasn't immediately apparent and the hacker provided contradictory figures and description of what they had stolen.

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