Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel putting out a word of warning urging 23andMe users to delete their accounts after the company announced it was filing for bankruptcy.

The company has genetic data from millions of users and concerns are being raised about how that information could be used by another company.

One geneticist says while the concerns are understandable, that genetic information does not pose a major security risk for users, right now.

“From a personal security standpoint, you know, if I clandestinely got your DNA, right now, it’s not like I could steal your financial information. It’s not like it doesn’t really give you a lot of information that someone can actually act upon in the in the short term,” Director of the Notre Dame DNA Learning Center Dr. Amy Stark said.

Those wanting to delete their data can do so by going to their 23andMe profile. going to settings, scrolling down to the 23andMe data section, hitting view, scroll to the delete data and then clicking permanently delete data.

For users who allowed 23andMe to share that data with pharmaceutical companies for drug development, the concern iswhat now?

Dr. Stark says that is one of the only other uses for genetic data.

“They are utilizing that, you know, and have been utilizing it. And if there, if that was the, you know, silver bullet that people are acting like it might be, there would have been a lot of more lucrative discoveries in the last few years that would have precluded this bankruptcy filing,” Dr. Stark said.

In the bankruptcy announcement 23andMe said that the company intends to continue operating its business throughout the sale process. They say there are no changes to the way the Company stores, manages, or protects customer data.