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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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[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

User opted-in to share those data

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You opt in to share your data with Facebook. Would you still consider it an issue if your data was breached because someone else's account was hacked?

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 10 months ago

I would consider normal that my photos that I only share with some people were leaked if one of those people's accounts got hacked.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure, it's a breach, but I would blame my idiot friend for re-using passwords. I wouldn't blame the service for doing exactly what I expected the service to do, and is the reason I chose to use the service in the first place.

It's also the reason I've very selective about what I share with anyone online, friend or otherwise.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you share your nudes with the "friends only" privacy settings on facebook, and someone else accesses one of your friends accounts because they reused their password and proceeds to leak those photos, is it the fault of Facebook, your friend, the person leaking them, or you?

Because that is exactly what happened here. Credit stuffing reused passwords and scraping opt-in "friends only" shared data between accounts.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Private health data was compromised as well, on a smaller scale. It doesn't make sense to blame users for a security breach of a corporation, literally ever. That's my point. The friend was dumb, and you shared something maybe you shouldn't have. But that doesn't also absolve the company of poor security practices. I very strongly doubt that 14,000 people knew or consciously chose to directly share with a collective 7 million people.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But they did. All 7 million of them - that's why their data was visible for those 14000.

As it says in the article:

From these 14,000 initial victims, however, the hackers were able to then access the personal data of the other 6.9 million victims because they had opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature. This optional feature allows customers to automatically share some of their data with people who are considered their relatives on the platform.

Here's what each and every one of those 7 million people opted in and agreed to:

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004659068-DNA-Relatives-The-Genetic-Relative-Basics