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23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users::Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

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[–] curious_betsy 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sadly you are mistaken here, the government is very interested in your DNA data. Check out this article about how they caught the golden state killer:

Law enforcement officials are more interested in whether their perp is closely related to other people in the database