MAILING IN A DNA SAMPLE NEVER SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME FOR EXACTLY THIS REASON: 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users. “In an email sent to TechCrunch late on Saturday, 23andMe spokesperson Katie Watson confirmed that hackers accessed the personal information of about 5.5 million people who opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, which allows customers to automatically share some of their data with others. The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.”