23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch

>In disclosing the incident in October, 23andMe said the data breach was caused by customers reusing passwords, which allowed hackers to brute-force the victims’ accounts by using publicly known passwords released in other companies’ data breaches.

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