In June 2018, the company which offers genealogy and DNA testing services disclosed a data breach impacting 92,283,889 users who had their email addresses and hashed passwords exposed. The company claimed that no medical details / DNA data were accessed.
The breach was presumed to have occurred in October 2017 but remained undiscovered until 9 months later when a security researcher told the company about a file he had discovered on a private server (not associated with the company).
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