[HN Gopher] Hackers got nearly 7M people's data from 23andMe
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       Hackers got nearly 7M people's data from 23andMe
        
       Author : LinuxBender
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-02-18 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | tonetegeatinst wrote:
       | I'm into cyber security as a hobby....and one thing has always
       | confused me regarding these breaches.
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       | Lots of these things are sold on the dark web and they might
       | release snippet samples to get a buyer but my understanding is
       | that unlike the old days of hacking....they normally don't
       | release the entire stolen content unless they really believe in
       | totally free data, or they have some massive gripe with the
       | company.
       | 
       | Normally only those who paid get access and iirc the guy who got
       | into the 23&me company wanted like a shitload of money for the
       | entire dataset which was massive. I heard the entire data was
       | somewhere between 20 and 50 terabytes but I could have wread an
       | estimate.
        
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