In a letter to victims who filed a lawsuit against the company, 23andMe blames its breach on customers for reusing passwords.

Hope this isn’t a repeated submission. Funny how they’re trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    224·
    10 months ago

    A successful breach of a family member’s account due to their bad security shouldn’t result in the breach of my account. That’s the problem

    I mean…

    You volunteered to share your info with that person.

    And that person reused a email/password that was compromised.

    How can 23andme prevent that?

    It sucks, but it’s the fault of your relative that you entrusted with access to your information.

    No different than if you handed them a hardcopy and they left it on the table of McDonald’s .

    Quick edit:

    It sounds like you think your account would be compromised, that’s not what happened. Only info you shared with the compromised relative becomes compromised. They don’t magically get your password.

    But you still choose to make it accessible to that relatives account by accepting their request to share

        • dmonzel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          65·
          10 months ago

          Ok, who else would be able to give me your personal information. I’ll go get it from them instead.

            • dmonzel@lemmy.mlEnglish
              28·
              10 months ago

              Oh, so you’re actually not consenting to have some personal information you’ve given to family given to me as well? Odd, you sure seemed ok when it was people having their information snagged from 23andMe.

              • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
                63·
                10 months ago

                No, but I didn’t consent to give that info to family either. If I was worried about my data getting in the hands of strangers, I wouldn’t have shared it with strangers which is what happened here. Unless you count a 4th cousin that you’ve never met “family”, why would you give them access to your data?

          • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            10 months ago

            And that’s exactly how the attackers got in in the first place lol.

            The ding dongs used the same creds elsewhere which were leaked.