23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn’t realize customers were being hacked::Firm says it didn’t realize customers were being hacked

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    11 months ago

    Our investigation determined the threat actor downloaded or accessed your uninterrupted raw genotype data, and may have accessed other sensitive information in your account,

    Fascinating. I was under the impression that you couldn’t get that without having it sent to your email address. I certainly haven’t seen any other ways of getting raw genomics out.

    Is this that the threat actor sent it to an email that was potentially compromised or do they have download logs of some form of hidden direct download feature?

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      11 months ago

      If they had access to their internal network, they could’ve exfiltrated it by a ton of different ways.

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        11 months ago

        They wouldn’t need to access 14,000 separate accounts if they had internal access to the database.

        The article states they got access to “private data” from 6.9 million other users via a ‘DNA relatives’ feature but doesn’t explain what kind of information that is. For those accounts that got directly accessed, it seems unlikely the hackers requested and intercepted an email for every one without being noticed sooner. Sounds like they only scraped what’s available on the site itself but it’d be nice if the article actually detailed that.

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          11 months ago

          Ah ok, didn’t know we knew those details. I guess they found an API endpoint that allowed them to do this that isn’t exposed through the website.

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            11 months ago

            The official RCA is credential stuffing.

            Reused passwords are a bitch.

            The main surprise is that you were able to get to genomic data with just a password. I thought it was only ever sent over email to the account email.

            Maybe the attack involved changing email as well?