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What a mess.
We’re all looking at the insecure finances, ownership & security of 23 & Me.
Meanwhile, DNA report company Atlas Biomed took money & DNA, then simply went dark & vanished…
And now appears to have been a Russian front company based in Moscow.
#23andme #dna #dnatesting #atlasbiomed #moscow #russia #infosec #privacy #informationsecurity #medtech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7wl7rpndjo
We’re all looking at the insecure finances, ownership & security of 23 & Me.
Meanwhile, DNA report company Atlas Biomed took money & DNA, then simply went dark & vanished…
And now appears to have been a Russian front company based in Moscow.
#23andme #dna #dnatesting #atlasbiomed #moscow #russia #infosec #privacy #informationsecurity #medtech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7wl7rpndjo
I gave my DNA to tracking company - then it vanished
Customers of Atlas Biomed are angry and worried about what's happened to the highly sensitive data they shared.Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
After hack, #23andMe gives users 30 days to opt out of class-action waiver - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/23andme-changes-arbitration-terms-after-hack-impacting-millions/ so...opt out if you are affected #DNA
After hack, 23andMe gives users 30 days to opt out of class-action waiver
Anyone who fails to opt out "will be deemed to have agreed to the new terms."Ars Technica
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
@lhn'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
@lhn'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
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.Lily Hay Newman (WIRED)