So 23andMe failed to identify brute force and credential stuffing access of 14,000 accounts. They also have a feature that grants those 14k compromised accounts effective access to 6.9 million accounts.
23andMe then claims that poor password practices are responsible for this data leak.
> “Therefore, the incident was not a result of 23andMe’s alleged failure to maintain reasonable security measures”
I've not run security at an org of their size, nor have i touched their service, but i have to imagine there were some patterns to this breach that would have been reasonable to account for ahead of time. Did those 14k accounts also have their email provider accounts compromised? Could a login ip-range check have prevented all of this? 2FA seems like an obvious answer here but clearly that was more than could be expected.
23andMe then claims that poor password practices are responsible for this data leak.
> “Therefore, the incident was not a result of 23andMe’s alleged failure to maintain reasonable security measures”
I've not run security at an org of their size, nor have i touched their service, but i have to imagine there were some patterns to this breach that would have been reasonable to account for ahead of time. Did those 14k accounts also have their email provider accounts compromised? Could a login ip-range check have prevented all of this? 2FA seems like an obvious answer here but clearly that was more than could be expected.