TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -With 23andMe’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, confusion over what to do with sensitive DNA data is in the air.

“We don’t know who might win the bid to buy the company because they’re in Chapter 11, which means that they’re going to try to reorganize that company and get it back and running in a nice flow,” said Marty Flanagan of the Topeka Genealogy Society. She’s a researcher who looks into her clients’ family history. “Bad actors could utilize that to find living people. Your DNA can find living people. I do it all the time.”

Flanagan believes the best way to ensure your DNA is in the right hands is to keep a copy on hand yourself.

“To protect you that you get what you’ve paid for before the final decision with the chapter 11, is that you download your DNA, you download your messages, the things that you want to save that you’ve worked on, in my case,12, 13 years.”

She also won’t allow the company to have her participate in their medical research projects.

“I think what I probably do is I will take myself out of the research project, and you know, maybe tighten up some of my things that I said that I was willing to do with my DNA with them.”

Ultimately, time will tell if more drastic steps need to be taken.

“I’ll be paying close attention to the news, whether I’m going to send an e-mail and ask to have my account completely deleted and cleared.”

If you had your DNA sequenced by 23andMe, you can upload that data to other, more secure websites. Flanagan said GEDmatch , Myheritage , and FamilyTreeDNA were all good choices.