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23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I knew better than to give thee companies my DNA but of course I've had family give it to them. I suppose if I was wanted for an unsolved murder I'd be a bit concerned, but I'm still not happy that anyone's DNA is compromised that I'm associated with.

The question to me is what's the play with that data. I'd assume they would have a use for it if they went to the trouble of stealing it. I suspect in the future this will be lucrative data, but what's the play right now??

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

For the grand majority of folks, Name, relationship label, self-reported location (city or zip), and birth year.

The ones with DNA compromises would be the ones whose accounts were directly accessed.