The company stressed that its systems were not directly breached, so it also encouraged users to use unique and strong passwords, in addition to enabling two-factor authentication to prevent their information from being compromised.
So far the company has not announced whether the information that was leaked is real or not. According to a statement to the United States media, there is an ongoing investigation to determine the veracity of the data.
Currently, the information is found in Dark Web forums and according to specialized media that have already reviewed the sales publications, there is data ranging from names, photographs and geolocation, to issues of “DNA Relatives”, which are data with which people can identify some type of genetic link.
For example, from this information you can obtain results about a person’s ancestry, that is, whether they have “broadly European or Arab” ancestry, to mention one case.
A Wired report highlighted that the leak contained 1 million data on the ethnicity of Ashkenazi Jews, in addition to information on 300,000 people of Chinese origin, which are being sold from one dollar to 10 dollars per profile.
Who is interested in this type of information?
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