23andMe says it’s looking into another possible data leak

23andMe is investigating studies of a brand new information leak involving tens of millions of person data. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported {that a} hacker claims to have leaked 4 million genetic profiles belonging to individuals in Nice Britain, together with “the wealthiest individuals residing within the U.S. and Western Europe.”

The hacker, who goes by “Golem,” is identical one which stole 1 million traces of genetic information from 23andMe earlier this month, based on TechCrunch. Golem posted this newest spherical of information on the hacking website BreachForums.

Katie Watson, the vice chairman of communications at 23andMe, tells The Verge the corporate was “made conscious” that the identical hacker claims to have leaked one other trove of what they declare is buyer info. “We’re at present reviewing the information to find out whether it is reliable,” Watson says. “Our investigation is ongoing and if we be taught {that a} buyer’s information has been accessed with out their authorization, we are going to notify them straight with extra info.”

In a weblog put up printed on October sixth, 23andMe confirmed that the information included within the earlier leak was reliable and affected the platform’s DNA Relations function, which lets customers match with different potential genetic kin on 23andMe. On the time, 23andMe mentioned it discovered no signal of a safety incident inside its techniques, including that the hacker was capable of entry customers’ accounts utilizing “recycled” login credentials that have been uncovered in different hacks.

This most up-to-date leak includes the DNA Relations function as effectively, probably enabling the hacker to scrape the knowledge belonging to the kin that an account has matched with.