23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online
(www.nbcnews.com)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 2023 18:00
https://lemmy.world/post/7323959
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 2023 18:00
https://lemmy.world/post/7323959
23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online::A user on a popular hacker forum had claimed to have made a larger database of users for sale earlier this week. It’s unclear if whoever compiled the list to only include Ashkenazi heritage is the same person or group who initially made it for sale.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hackers have compiled a giant apparent list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry after taking that information from the genetic testing service 23andMe, which is now being shared on the internet.
A database that has been shared on dark web forums and viewed by NBC News has a list of 999,999 people who allegedly have used the service.
It’s unclear if whoever compiled the list to only include Ashkenazi heritage is the same person or group who initially made it for sale.
The list appears to be a random sample of hundreds of thousands of people for whom Ashkenazi Jewish is at least in their top three.
A popular option available to the company’s 14 million users, called DNA Relatives, allows any account to search for others who may be even a distant genetic match.
23andMe believes that the hackers simply recycled some users’ passwords — it isn’t clear how many — to scrape the list of people it had labeled as having Ashkenazi heritage.
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Couldn’t find one more to make it an even million huh?
And this is why no one in the US is getting that information about me unless they’re a medical company and forced to abide by HIPAA.
It makes me regret using the service.
Yeah, a lot of people got swept up in the fact that it was a novel curiosity.