{"id":34813,"date":"2018-06-06T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34813"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:12:59","slug":"dna-website-myheritage-hacked-92-million-user-accounts-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34813","title":{"rendered":"DNA Website MyHeritage Hacked; 92 Million User Accounts Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-05\/dna-website-myheritage-hacked-92-million-user-accounts-exposed\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">DNA Website MyHeritage Hacked; 92 Million User Accounts Exposed<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1373\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1373\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In an odd coincidence, earlier today we asked rhetorically &#8220;what could go wrong&#8221; if millions of Americans trust a DNA collecting company &#8211; in this case ancestry.com &#8211; with their genetic code. At almost the exact same time, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-06-05\/hack-of-dna-website-exposes-data-from-92-million-user-accounts\">reported <\/a>that the Israeli-based consumer genealogy website, MyHeritage had been hacked, and that the email addresses and password information linked to more than 92 million user accounts have been &#8220;compromised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to MyHeritage, its security officer had received a message from a researcher who unearthed a file named \u201cmyheritage\u201d containing email addresses and hashed passwords of 92,283,889 of its users on a private server outside the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been no evidence that the data in the file was ever used by the perpetrators,\u201d the company said in a statement late Monday, supposedly in an attempt to make its nearly 100 million users and customers feel comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>It was not explicitly clear if any client &#8220;genetic material&#8221; had also been compromised as part of the security breach.<\/p>\n<p>Like Ancestry.com and 23andMe, MyHeritage lets users submit their DNA, build family trees, search historical records and hunt for potential relatives. Founded in Israel in 2003, the site launched a service called MyHeritage DNA in 2016 that lets users send in a saliva sample for genetic analysis. The website currently has 96 million users of whom 1.4 million users have taken the DNA test.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/my%20heritage%20dna.jpg?itok=7cu1E0eT\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/my%20heritage%20dna.jpg?itok=7cu1E0eT\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/my%20heritage%20dna.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/my%20heritage%20dna.jpg?itok=7cu1E0eT 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"2f43bacf-1eea-41b1-98b6-bab8ba267a6e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.myheritage.com\/\">blog post<\/a>, MyHeritage said the breach took place on Oct. 26, 2017, and impacts users who signed up for an account through that date. Armed with that information, a hacker could access personal information such as the identity of family members. While the company said it is unlikely that they could easily access a user\u2019s raw genetic information, that&#8217;s precisely what one would expect them to say as the alternative is going out of business as its entire user base flees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA Website MyHeritage Hacked; 92 Million User Accounts Exposed In an odd coincidence, earlier today we asked rhetorically &#8220;what could go wrong&#8221; if millions of Americans trust a DNA collecting company &#8211; in this case ancestry.com &#8211; with their genetic code. At almost the exact same time, Bloomberg reported that the Israeli-based consumer genealogy website, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,190,13354,2148,20377,4318],"class_list":["post-34813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bloomberg","tag-data","tag-dna","tag-hacking","tag-myheritage","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34814,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34813\/revisions\/34814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}