23andMe Reenters the Spotlight With Data From 4.1 Million Users Connected

Hackers continue to release data stolen from 23andMe, a company that performs genetic testing and analysis, to the public. On this occasion, data from 4.1 million user profiles from the United Kingdom and Germany appeared on the network, among which, according to hackers, there is genetic information on members of the royal family, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.

Note that this is not the first breach of 23andMe customer data this month. Previously, a hacker under the nickname Golem published the data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jews and more than 300 thousand people of Chinese origin on the hacker forum BreachForums.

The new leak, posted on the same BreachForums forum, contains 4,011,607 lines of data on people in the United Kingdom (supposedly including the royal family, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers) and an additional CSV file with data on 139,172 residents of Germany.

“In this list, you can see the richest people living in the United States and Western Europe,” the hackers said in a statement.

TechCrunch verified some of the new UK data and confirmed its veracity. They also discovered that some of 23andMe’s customer data was being sold in August 2023 on the private hacker forum Hydra. At the time, the hacker claimed that about 300 terabytes of information had been stolen from the company.

23andMe still does not acknowledge the fact of a large-scale security breach and says that it is only a small number of accounts that have been hacked.