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23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are services that check provided credentials against a dictionary of compromised ones and reject them. Off the top of my head Microsoft Azure does this and so does Nextcloud.

[–] dpkonofa 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This assumes that the compromised credentials were made public prior to the exfiltration. In this case, it wasn’t as the data was being sold privately on the dark web. HIBP, Azure, and Nextcloud would have done nothing to prevent this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea, you're right. Good point.