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23andMe data breach under joint investigation in two countries
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The British and Canadian privacy authorities have announced they will undertake a joint investigation into the data breach at global genetic testing company 23andMe that was discovered in October 2023.
On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that cybercriminals had “obtained information from certain accounts, including information about users’ DNA Relatives profiles.”
Later, an investigation by 23andMe showed that an attacker was able to directly access the accounts of roughly 0.1% of 23andMe’s users, …
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