Genetic testing firm 23andMe admits hackers accessed DNA data of 7m users
by Edward Helmore from Technology | The Guardian on (#6GXCP)
US company says threat actor' responsible for security breach that affected nearly half of its 14m reported users
The genetic testing company 23andMe has said that nearly 7 million people have been affected by a security breach that put DNA ancestry information into the hands of hackers who broke into the site in early October.
On Friday, the California-based company said in a regulatory filing that the personal data of 0.1% of customers - or about 14,000 individuals - had been accessed by threat actors". But the filing warned that hackers were also able to access a significant number of files containing profile information about other users' ancestry".
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