Enlarge / The 23andMe logo displayed on a smartphone screen.
Genetic profiling service 23andMe has confirmed that private user data is circulating for sale online after being scraped off its website.
Friday’s confirmation comes five days after an unknown entity took to an online crime forum to advertise the sale of private information for millions of 23andMe users. The forum posts claimed that the stolen data included origin estimation, phenotype, health information, photos, and identification data. The posts claimed that 23andMe’s CEO was aware the company had been “hacked” two months earlier and never revealed the incident.
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