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This doesn't just affect 23andMe's customers. It affects every person who shares DNA with their customers. For instance, police have been able to match DNA sa
by ta8645 3y ago
This doesn't just affect 23andMe's customers. It affects every person who shares DNA with their customers.
For instance, police have been able to match DNA samples of an unknown perpetrator against these DNA services. Matches against their extended family (who have used the service) is enough to identify them, even though they've never been a customer. And while that's a good thing, the more general case is true for every one of us all. We're all represented in this DNA data to one degree or another, even if we've never used the service.
- jefftk 3y agoIt sounds like you're under the impression that the data that was leaked for half the customer base was people's full genotype? Because the kind of matching that you're talking about here isn't possible on the coarse data that the attackers were able to leverage compromised accounts to access.