{"id":177564,"date":"2023-12-06T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/oops-23andme-admits-hackers-stole-7-million-customers-genetic-data"},"modified":"2023-12-06T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T04:26:09","slug":"oops-23andme-admits-hackers-stole-7-million-customers-genetic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/oops-23andme-admits-hackers-stole-7-million-customers-genetic-data","title":{"rendered":"Oops! 23andMe Admits Hackers Stole 7 Million Customers\u2019 Genetic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oops-23andme-admits-hackers-stole-7-million-customers-genetic-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the internet, nothing is safe \u2014 not even your DNA, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the dystopian lesson from the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/ix?doc=\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1804591\/000119312523287449\/d242666d8ka.htm\" class=\"\"> which disclosed on Friday in a regulatory filing<\/a> that hackers managed to access information on about 14,000 users or 0.1 percent of its customer user base.<\/p>\n<p>But the problem goes beyond this relatively small number of people. Because the website allows users to share DNA information with other users in order to find relatives, the true number impacted is orders of magnitude larger \u2014 with about 6.9 million customers having their personal information compromised, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/12\/04\/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users\/\" class=\"\"> according to <i>TechCrunch<\/i><\/a>. Big yikes on that figure, because it affects something like half of the 14 million users at 23andMe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the internet, nothing is safe \u2014 not even your DNA, apparently. That\u2019s the dystopian lesson from the commercial genetic testing company 23andMe, which disclosed on Friday in a regulatory filing that hackers managed to access information on about 14,000 users or 0.1 percent of its customer user base. But the problem goes beyond this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177564","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=177564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}