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Guess the company: Takes your DNA, blames you when criminals steal it, can’t spot a cyberattack for 5 months

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STIX ID: report--f381cfb7-000e-54af-b4bc-d5b7c85b6f3c

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2024-01-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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23andMe disclosed that attackers performed credential-stuffing logins between April and September 2023, compromising roughly 14,000 accounts with the DNA Relatives feature enabled and potentially exposing the genetic-relationship data of about 6.9 million people; the activity was detected only in October after a Reddit post, 2FA was mandated afterward, and the company has blamed user credential reuse for the breach.

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