There should be a mandatory test or exam before allowing companies to handle user data. And it should be perpetual.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals.
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.
23andMe also confirmed that another group of about 1.4 million people who opted-in to DNA Relatives also “had their Family Tree profile information accessed,” which includes display names, relationship labels, birth year, self-reported location and whether the user decided to share their information, the spokesperson said.
Considering the new numbers, in reality, the data breach is known to affect roughly half of 23andMe’s total reported 14 million customers.
In early October, a hacker claimed to have stolen the DNA information of 23andMe users in a post on a well-known hacking forum.
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The hackers were the US Govt. /s maybe
Why? I mean they're all dead why would you want to have this information how was it useful how are they going to use it?
Time traveling hackers.
Their goal? To travel back in time and establish the first spam marketing service before the FCC established guidelines to restrict spam and before the discovery of the telephone!
That's ridiculous, it's obvious they're just normal hackers who are doing the very standard thing of collecting family connections and relationship data so they can locate the true scion of Jesus and unlock the secrets of the holy grail. It's what all the scam centers and bot armies do.
It also happene in 2019 to a similar company called MyHeritage: https://twitter.com/haveibeenpwned/status/1098327769660850176
Ah, so they’ll miss out on a few sales of all that genetic data people pay them to collect. Boohoo.
Oh no, they know I'm 7.2% French.
You're not. It's all fake
Sort of, but it depends on the interpretation.