The three malicious extensions named netPlus (with 1 million installs), netSave, and netWin (each with 500,000 installs) primarily targeted users in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
...23andMe officials... confirmed that private data for some of its users is... up for sale. The cause of the leak... is data scraping, a technique that essentially reassembles large amounts of data by systematically extracting smaller amounts of information available to individual users
The crime forum post claimed the attackers obtained “13M pieces of data.”
#Cybersecurity#23AndMe#DNA#Privacy#Hacking#DataTheft#DataProtection: "The officials said the information obtained may have included users’ display name, profile photo, profile sex, birth year, location, predicted relationships to their match, the percent DNA match and number of shared genetic segments and portions of their genetic ancestry results, including haplogroups, which provide information about ancestry.
The exact scope of the data obtained by the attacker remains unclear and CyberScoop has not been able to verify the authenticity of the data offered for sale.
#ireland runs a regime where big tech is hardly taxed and is subject to hardly any data privacy oversight. Now the #fg#ff#greens want to make the lack of data protection even more intransparent. This is an attempt to make the great work of people like #maxschrems even more difficult by criminalising it.