23andMe user data breached in credential-stuffing attack

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23andMe user data is circulating on hacker forums. The company confirmed the leak occurred through a credential-stuffing attack, according to BleepingComputer.

that its user data is circulating on hacker forums. The company said the leak occurred through a credential-stuffing attack.

A credential-stuffing attack involves user information that has already been compromised from one organization, which a hacker obtains and attempts to reuse with a second organization — in this case, 23andMe. Because of the nature of credential-stuffing, it does not appear this was a breach of the company's internal systems. Rather, accounts were broken into piecemeal. The perpetrators of this attack appear to have obtained quite sensitive information from the compromised accounts ..

 

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