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23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews (www.wired.com)

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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.

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[-] marco@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The data that's available on the hacker forum doesn't contain the raw DNA, but that's just a promotion to sell much bigger dataset, which the hackers claim has the DNA... https://twitter.com/mattjay/status/1710370443968856559

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