Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Tuesday, December 5th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. The 23 and Me hack just keeps getting worse.

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This whole thing continues to just get worse. 23 and me now says that hackers

stole the ancestry data of 6.9 million of its 14 million customers via a data breach first disclosed in October, leveraging

access to around 14,000 accounts.

So even though 23 and me first said, like 0.1% of its users were hacked. It turns out it was half. Half of 23

and me customers have been breached. But again it's weird because remember 6.9 million accounts

weren't hacked initially. 14,000 were, but because of the weird way

23 in me accounts were set up, the other 69 million could be unveiled.

Quoting Tech Crunch. In an email set to Tech Crunch late on unveiled. of about 5.5 million people who opted into 23 and me's DNA relatives feature, which allows

customers to automatically share some of their data with others.

The stolen data included the person's name, birth year relationship labels, the percentage of

DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports, and

self-reported location.

23 and me also confirmed that another group of about 1.4 million people who opted into

DNA relatives also, quote,

had their family tree profile information accessed, end quote,

which includes display names, relationship labels,

birth years, self-reported location,

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