Hacked: 92 Million Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqyvx/myheritage-hacked-data-breach-92-million
When you sign up to a website handling sensitive information, perhaps a medical service or social network, one of the basic things you’re probably hoping for is that the site can keep control of its users’ data. Unfortunately for customers of MyHeritage, a genealogy and DNA testing service, a researcher uncovered 92 million account details related to the company sitting on a server, according to an announcement from MyHeritage.
The data relates to users who signed up to MyHeritage up to and including October 26, 2017—the date of the breach—the announcement adds.
Hacked: 92 Million Account Details for DNA Testing Service MyHeritage
Jun 5, 2018, 3:34pm UTC
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqyvx/myheritage-hacked-data-breach-92-million
> When you sign up to a website handling sensitive information, perhaps a medical service or social network, one of the basic things you’re probably hoping for is that the site can keep control of its users’ data. Unfortunately for customers of MyHeritage, a genealogy and DNA testing service, a researcher uncovered 92 million account details related to the company sitting on a server, according to an announcement from MyHeritage.
> The data relates to users who signed up to MyHeritage up to and including October 26, 2017—the date of the breach—the announcement adds.