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It wasn't millions of accounts, it was an undefined number relying on scraping dna relatives after the breach. This article mentioned it, but last week I saw a
by astroid 3y ago
It wasn't millions of accounts, it was an undefined number relying on scraping dna relatives after the breach. This article mentioned it, but last week I saw a better more detailed explanation.
Regardless, the key quote from the linked article:
"23andMe blamed the incident on its customers for reusing passwords, and an opt-in feature called DNA Relatives, which allows users to see the data of other opted-in users whose genetic data matches theirs. If a user had this feature turned on, in theory it would allow hackers to scrape data on more than one user by breaking into a single user’s account."