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Are there any reports of anyone actually harmed by this, or is it all tiresome righteous indignation?
by tiahura 3y ago
Are there any reports of anyone actually harmed by this, or is it all tiresome righteous indignation?
- kmoser 3y agoHow would you correlate this breach with actual harm? If somebody, say, hacks into one of your other accounts, or opens credit in your name, it's not always obvious where they got your info.
- buffington 3y agoOr if a neo-Nazi firebombs your house, your cousin's house, your parents' house, and some guy who you didn't know was your uncle since he was given up for adoption, but was also Jewish. How do you correlate that to a data breach? That's why this data breach is so dangerous. It helps fill in nearly every stepping stone for bad actors, all the way to the baddest of them, to cause harm or exploit someone.
- buffington 3y agoAre you saying you'd be ok a company leaking not just your sequenced DNA (and the avalanche of things that says about you), but who you're related to, by DNA?
- elevatedastalt 3y agoThe company did not leak it. People reuse passwords. "Hackers" just tried passwords from earlier dumps and accessed profiles of people who reused the same password with 23&Me
- tiahura 3y agoAs soon as a cousin or two does it the cat’s kind of out of the bag, isn’t it? Isn’t that what all of these “I did my DNA and you’re my dad!” and “Ancestry.com cold crime DNA break” stories prove?