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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits (www.wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits::Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A better example might be your sister has the keys to your house and a note out on the counter with a label that says "surewhynotlem's house key."

A home intruder finds the key, and now has information on where the key can be used. When your house is robbed, it isn't the locksmith who is to blame.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'd say it's more like you gave your mom your SSN (or similar private information) because she said she needed it for her will or something. When you gave it to her she mumbled she'd share it with your sister too. You weren't really paying attention and just went "yuh huh" when you probably should have told her not to. Your sister uses one key for everything and a burglar got a copy of that key from an earlier burglarly. The burglar eventually used the key to rob her and took your SSN, which he's now selling.

Mom=23andme

Sister=relative

"yuh huh"=not disabling "DNA Relatives" sharing feature