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.

  • Hegar@kbin.social
    13·
    10 months ago

    Name, sex and ancestry were sold on the dark web, that’s a breach of private data.

    The feature that lets a hacker see 500 other people’s personal information when they hack an account is obviously a massive security risk. Especially if you run a single use service - no one updates their password on a site they don’t use anymore.

    Launching the feature in the first place made this inevitable.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Name, sex and ancestry were sold on the dark web, that’s a breach of private data.

      It would be a breach if the data was private, but the feature itself exposes this data. That would be like presenting a concert to hundreds of people then complaining your facial attributes were leaked in social media.