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23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Hope this isn't a repeated submission. Funny how they're trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

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[–] eager_eagle 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

afaik there was no breach of private data, only the kind of data shared to find relatives, which is opt-in and obviously not private to anyone who has seen how this service works. In other words, the only data "leaked" was the kind of data that was already shared with other 23andMe users.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Name, sex and ancestry were sold on the dark web, that's a breach of private data.

The feature that lets a hacker see 500 other people's personal information when they hack an account is obviously a massive security risk. Especially if you run a single use service - no one updates their password on a site they don't use anymore.

Launching the feature in the first place made this inevitable.

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Name, sex and ancestry were sold on the dark web, that’s a breach of private data.

It would be a breach if the data was private, but the feature itself exposes this data. That would be like presenting a concert to hundreds of people then complaining your facial attributes were leaked in social media.