Matt Burgess on Nostr: Genetic testing firm 23andMe has suffered a data breach. 1 million data points ...
Genetic testing firm 23andMe has suffered a data breach.
1 million data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews have been advertised for sale on a cybercrime forum. There's also information about hundreds of thousands of users of Chinese descent.
It appears to be a credential stuffing attack—where previously leaked logins and passwords from other sites are tried on 23andMe—with the attackers then scraping data from profiles
npub1jpjhesv3j86lc2hgkuvwpewhzefl8x4mlhz373t2dmgka7yg6zxsnzdkzf (npub1jpj…dkzf)'s story has all the details we know so far:
https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-credential-stuffing-data-stolen/ #cybersecurity #news #tech #23andme #infosec
1 million data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews have been advertised for sale on a cybercrime forum. There's also information about hundreds of thousands of users of Chinese descent.
It appears to be a credential stuffing attack—where previously leaked logins and passwords from other sites are tried on 23andMe—with the attackers then scraping data from profiles
npub1jpjhesv3j86lc2hgkuvwpewhzefl8x4mlhz373t2dmgka7yg6zxsnzdkzf (npub1jpj…dkzf)'s story has all the details we know so far:
https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-credential-stuffing-data-stolen/ #cybersecurity #news #tech #23andme #infosec