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By “unknown third parties” do you mean the hackers? The breach was bad but not that bad — it didn’t include your genetic material. > The stolen data included
by gorgoiler 3y ago
By “unknown third parties” do you mean the hackers? The breach was bad but not that bad — it didn’t include your genetic material.
> The stolen data included the person’s name, birth year, relationship labels, the percentage of DNA shared with relatives, ancestry reports and self-reported location.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-stole-ancestry-data-on-6-9-million-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/23andme-confirms-hackers-s...
- consumer451 3y agoI meant 23andMe partners, and yes, also the hack, and future hacks. This DB is a goldmine and I take an extremely pessimistic view on infosec. Information wants to be "free" after all. Look at the KSA agents who were implanted at Twitter as an example. I would have to assume that nation state actors would also implant employees at 23andMe. The publicized hack is the one we, and 23andMe, know about. It's just too juicy a target to keep safely guarded in perpetuity. Simply by compiling this information, you are more or less guaranteeing it falling into the wrong hands eventually. This is an example of information which never should have been compiled.