23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews::At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it’s working to verify the data.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I knew submitting dna samples to companies wasn’t a good idea because they give data to police departments but it didn’t occur to me to use it to target minorities.

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      The accounts compromised were ones that had reused their passwords and the only way to get genomic data from an account is for a link to be sent to your email account.