Jun 6, 2018

Popular DNA testing service reports breach affecting 92 million users

Popular DNA testing service reports breach affecting 92 million users
By Bryan Clark


One of the largest DNA testing services recently uncovered a breach that affects more than 90 million customers. A security researcher found, on a private server, the email addresses and hashed passwords of every customer that signed up for the service before October 26 of last year. MyHeritage, an Israel-based DNA testing service, reported the breach in a blog post yesterday: Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief Information Security Officer received a message from a security researcher that he had found a file named myheritage containing email addresses and hashed passwords, on a private server outside…

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