23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped

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23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped
arstechnica.com

23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped::Records reportedly belong to millions of users who opted in to a relative-search feature.

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As someone who hasn’t personally done any of these tests but whose relatives (aunts/cousins) have, does anyone know how much of my personal information is now up for sale?

Definitely enough to identify you, probably not enough to clone you