Profile information of some 23andMe customers reportedly recently started appearing on a dark web forum often used by hackers, NBC News and others reported last week.
Profile information of some 23andMe customers reportedly recently started appearing on a dark web forum often used by hackers. That happened last week, with bad actors offering compilations of the information for a price, according to NBC News and other outlets. Names, birth years, genders, ancestry and certain other non-DNA profile information were reportedly among the details that got published. In a Friday blog post, 23andMe said the bad actor may have "accessed 23andMe.
"23andMe is committed to providing you with a safe and secure place where you can learn about your DNA knowing your privacy is protected," 23andMe also said in the blog post. "We do not have any indication at this time that there has been a data security incident within our systems, or that 23andMe was the source of the account credentials used in these attacks.
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