<p>Genetic testing firm 23andMe confirmed Monday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cyberattack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hackers</a> were able to access the data of 6.9 million users, about half the company&#8217;s customer base.</p>
<p>The California-based company said hackers accessed 5.5 million profiles that were using a feature called DNA Relatives, which allows people to find genetic relatives. Hackers were also able to access family tree information from another 1.4 million DNA Relatives profiles.</p>
<p>In some cases, the hackers gained access to users&#8217; ancestry reports, zip codes, and birth years, 23andMe said.</p>
<p>“23andMe has completed its investigation, assisted by third-party forensics experts. We are in the process of notifying affected customers, as required by law,” the company <a href="https://blog.23andme.com/articles/addressing-data-security-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement posted Saturday evening to 23andMe&#8217;s website.</p>
<p>“We have taken steps to further protect customer data, including requiring all existing customers to reset their password and requiring two-step verification for all new and existing customers,” the company said.</p>
<p>Last week, 23andMe said hackers had accessed data from about 14,000 users or 0.1% of its customers.</p>
<p>In order to pull off the data breach, the hackers reused old usernames and passwords from other websites that had already been compromised, a tactic known as credential stuffing.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have taken steps to further protect customer data, including requiring all existing customers to reset their password and requiring two-step verification for all new and existing customers,&#8221; a company spokesperson <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/23andme-confirms-hackers-accessed-data-6-9-million-users" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox Business.</p>
<p>The company also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/23andme-hack-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Monday that it has not learned of “any reports of inappropriate use of the data after the leak.”</p>
<p>In October, profile information from 23andMe customers reportedly started showing up on a dark web forum used by hackers.</p>
<p>The company is currently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/23andme-hack-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> on notifying all customers who were affected by the breach, as required by law, although the timeline for when everyone will have been notified is not clear.</p>
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<p>Critics have warned against providing such personal information to companies, saying it can always be stolen.</p>
<p>“Should we be providing data that is so personal and so intimate to an organization that, largely speaking, only has a strong allegiance to their investors and their boards?” Ramesh Srinivasan, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles department of information studies, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/23andme-hack-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> to The New York Times.</p>
<p>23andMe is not the first firm to have a major data breach.</p>
<p>Last month, Okta, an identity management firm, admitted that a data breach was worse than expected. Hackers likely stole data from all recent users of Okta&#8217;s Help Center service, the company <a href="https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/okta-customer-support-security-breach-update-all-clients-using-help-center-impacted-contact-info-for-all-certified-users-stolen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>

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