23andme
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23andMe Admits ‘Mining’ Your DNA Data Is Its Last Hope
23andMe is in a death spiral. Almost everyone who wants a DNA test already bought one, a nightmare data breach ruined the company’s reputation, and 23andMe’s stock is so close to worthless it might get kicked off the Nasdaq. CEO Anne Wojcicki is on a crisis tour, promising investors the company isn’t going out of…
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INTERPOL Arrests 3,500 Suspects in Sweeping Cybercrime Operation
The agency made thousands of arrests and seized $US300 million related to cybercrime.
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Time to Change Your DNA: 23andMe Lost Data for 6.9 Million People
23andMe, the world’s leading consumer DNA harvesting enterprise, has announced that hackers stole about 14,000 people’s ancestry information, as well as “a significant number of files” about other users. It turns out the word “significant” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. According to TechCrunch, 23andMe lost data about 6.9 million users, including…
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23andMe Sued After Hacker Claims Massive Data Breach Impacting Ashkenazi Jews
23andMe, the company that lets you know whether you’re related to your wife or not, appears to be in trouble. Over the weekend, multiple outlets reported that the biomedical company had suffered a data breach after users’ information unceremoniously popped up for sale on a popular dark web forum. Now, the company is predictably getting…