It swiftly became clear that Ashkenazi Jews were targeted in the cyberattack, although the reasons were as yet unclear. The data included a display name, sex, birth year and details about genetic ancestry, but apparently not raw genetic data.
The hackers posted a data sample on the BreachForums platform on October 4, claiming to have stolen one million data points belonging solely to Ashkenazi Jews. But hundreds of thousands of people with Chinese ancestry were also caught in the net, according to Wired .
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