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According to this tweet, the hackers likely got ALL of the data but only leaked a subset, 1.3 million records (only the ashkenazi Jews)

https://x.com/mattjay/status/1710370423311888724?s=20

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That would explain how they got so much data with a probably small number of compromised accounts. Ashkenazi Jewish people were relatively genetically isolated from the rest of Europe and started from a relatively small founder population. Genetically, then, they're all detected as distant cousins of each other using standard metrics.

This means a typical Ashkenazi Jewish customer of 23andMe has a lot more relatives than most other customers, and so they'd be able to view that many more profiles.

as a 23andMe user with a high percentage of Ashkenazi genes I expected my data to be in the leak but it wasn't so it's probably not all of the Ashkenazi data

How did you verify? I am ashkenazi

assuming your last name is the same as in your HN username you are not in the file either

(as to how I verified: the file is still available on the leak site)

OK, that CSV is just a subset of the data they claim to have.... so our data might still be out there even if it wasn't in this file.

These are the headers:

  profile_id; account_id; first_name; last_name; sex; birth_year; has_health; ydna; mdna; current_location; regions; subregions; population_ids

First entry is

  Elon;Musk;Male;1971;...

Glad I used 23andMe with a fake name and UPS PO Box

What did you use to pay for all of it?

Prepaid visa that I bought with cash at the supermarket. It’s a lot of work but it… worked.

There's a whole debate about whether Elon Musk has Jewish ancestry. Are you saying he is?

I have almost 6% myself, but to me it feels like, if I don't even know about who it might have been in my family tree, it doesn't really count.

But yes, for EM it said "Ashkenazi;Balkan;British Irish" - no percentages in there - and I believe 23andme has confirmed the authenticity of the data.

That tweet has zero evidence this is anything more than using reused passwords. Certainly not all data.

Oh god, of course it’s a Jewish thing

If I live a hundred years I will never understand people’s obsession with the Jews

Great, more neo-nazi terror. I love the 20's /s

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