The hackers were the US Govt. /s maybe
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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There should be a mandatory test or exam before allowing companies to handle user data. And it should be perpetual.
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.