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title: "A Security Breach Exposed More Than One Million DNA Profiles On A Major Genealogy Database"
date: 2020-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
url: https://rmendes.net/notes/2020/07/23/a-security-breach-exposed-more-than-one-million/
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# A Security Breach Exposed More Than One Million DNA Profiles On A Major Genealogy Database

## __[A Security Breach Exposed More Than One Million DNA Profiles On A Major Genealogy Database ](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna-privacy)

Just another case of massive privacy breach leading to we don't even know kind of abuses.