{"id":173661,"date":"2023-10-06T23:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/23andme-cyberbreach-exposes-dna-data-potential-family-ties"},"modified":"2023-10-06T23:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T04:24:35","slug":"23andme-cyberbreach-exposes-dna-data-potential-family-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/23andme-cyberbreach-exposes-dna-data-potential-family-ties","title":{"rendered":"23andMe Cyberbreach Exposes DNA Data, Potential Family Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/23andme-cyberbreach-exposes-dna-data-potential-family-ties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>23andMe, the popular DNA testing company, has launched an investigation after client information was listed for sale on a cybercrime forum this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 1, a post was published on the forum with a link to a sample of allegedly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/23andme-user-data-theft\/?utm_content=266994582&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-720664083767435264\" target=\"_blank\">20 million pieces of data<\/a>\u201d from the genetic testing company, claiming that it was \u201cthe most valuable data you\u2019ll ever see.\u201d The first leak included 1 million lines of data, but on Oct. 4, the threat actor began offering bulk data profiles ranging from $1 to $10 per account in batches of 100, 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 profiles.<\/p>\n<p>The information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/2-5m-impacted-by-enzo-biochem-data-leak-after-ransomware-attack\" target=\"_blank\">leaked in the breach<\/a> includes names, usernames, profile photos, gender, birthdays, geographical location, and genetic ancestry results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23andMe, the popular DNA testing company, has launched an investigation after client information was listed for sale on a cybercrime forum this week. On Oct. 1, a post was published on the forum with a link to a sample of allegedly \u201c20 million pieces of data\u201d from the genetic testing company, claiming that it was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}