The attacker behind the incident already leaked an initial sample of data about users with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage.
Logo on facade of personal genomics company 23AndMe in Mountain View, California, in October 2018. Photo: Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images.said Friday that it believes some of its users' data was compromised in a credential-stuffing attack and is being circulated on a dark-web hacking forum.The attacker behind the incident already leaked to a popular hacking forum an initial sample of 1 million data points about users with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage, according to a post seen by Axios.
The attacker also reportedly published a separate sample with information about more than 300,000 users with Chinese heritage earlier in the week,A 23andMe spokesperson said in a statement to Axios that the company is aware that a threat actor has leaked a yet-to-be-determined number of users' information onto the dark web.
However, the spokesperson stressed that the company does not "have any indication at this time that there has been a data security incident within our systems." From there, the threat actor scraped data about other 23andMe users who had opted into the company's DNA Relatives tool, which matches users who appear to be genetically related.23andMe is still investigating the incident, and it remains unclear how much data the attackers were able to steal and whether the incident just targeted users with Ashkenazi and Chinese heritage.
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