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At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Though if neither a father nor his sons have submitted their DNA, the service will lack all that Y-DNA though, right? I'm glad I made the right decision to not send in my DNA to those sites, despite my sisters hounding me to do it after our dad refused, lol.

It's a shame though, because family genetic networking is interesting, but it just goes to show you can't trust these companies. (Even though the company didn't really do anything truly wrong in this case, as it's simply users reusing passwords, they still should have been better/more proactive especially with such sensitive information)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Even though the company didn’t really do anything truly wrong in this case, as it’s simply users reusing passwords, they still should have been better/more proactive especially with such sensitive information

There's nothing special or new or unique or unforseen about the security requirements of 23andMe.

They absolutely failed to implement an appropriate level of security measures for their service.

Mandatory 2FA could've prevented this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Part of the issue is the average person using a service like this, and people comfortable with MFA don’t really overlap.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hence the key word: mandatory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I didn’t miss that. Would it be a good business decision for nascar to force people wanting to buy live tickets to eat a vegan meal?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

"We sent you an SMS with a 4 digit number, please type it in this box" is a pretty low bar.

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