Doesn’t help that they immediately updated their user agreement to avoid responsibility. Nothing says give our product a chance like that.
I don’t trust them or anyone else with my data, let alone my DNA
Well someone’s not getting reborn 200M years from now in Cenozoic Park.
Dun dun! Dun duuun! Dun-da daaa da-dun dun daaaah! flails silly human arms RAAAH!!!
“They do move in herds!”
That’s why I prefer to let mosquitos bite me.
Mr. DNA‽ Where did you come from‽
Refreshing to have some sort of consequences for being negligent with people’s data
Too bad the consequences are not prison.
Hear hear
No, they’ve been heading south for years. I would have loved for it to be a drop in response to the data breach, but this was just a company that was run incompetently.
Which data were they negligent with? I thought it was breaches on other sites that gave reused passwords.
Credential stuffing is a well understood part of the threat landscape that 23 and me negligently failed to account for, allowing hackers to access 7 million people’s info after hacking only 14 thousand users.
…because those 7 million people opted into sharing their data with everyone else.
No, they opted to share varying degrees of information with authorized users and close genetic matches, and 23andMe failed to protect them from a large scale takeover of accounts that made public the kind of information the company had promised to keep private to semi-private.
14,000 accounts compromise by the same entity. That’s absolutely the fault of the platform, not the users.
You’re making a distinction without a difference. Nobody has any fucking clue who their “genetic match” will be nor does anyone have any fucking clue who else is using 23andMe. Sharing that information with other 23andMe users is not meaningfully different than just sharing it with the world at large.
It’s not the responsibility of your grandma who’s researching family history to be aware of potential data security threats. It’s the responsibility of the multimillion dollar online company with massive, valuable data troves to not offer a feature that was just a data breach waiting to happen.
I remember when the housing market crashed and hearing all these rich folks talk about how it is poor people who are responsible for not knowing they couldnt afford their homes.
Yeah so why exactly do we have a credit rating system if it isn’t rating credit?
You are completely correct. It is not on regular people to be experts on cyber security and somehow know that the company is doing their job and will do their job forever.
There are still all kinds of things a company can do to mitigate at least some of this. New browser, new location, forced two-factor auth, etc.
Cmon, we know their target market was dumbasses. How many dumbasses do you know that use mfa, or that actually look at a login notification before hitting “yes, it’s me”?
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You think it’s not already?
It wasn’t only because they didn’t need to buy it. They stole it instead
If you read the article, they partner with GSK. So it’s probably only going to them, not the open market. They openly say they’re researching genetic meds.
But hey, at least they got to expose their Jewish customers to Nazis before they went under…
For your entertainment:
If only they allowed more decimal points they could have been at 0.69420 !
Forward this to Elon Musk and he will make a buyout offer at that price.
Nah, he would puff himself up online and say he will buy it for $20 a share and then try and back out.
He would by at $69 just for the lols
Get ready for that data to be sold.
That’s pretty much been their business model from day 1. If they didn’t plan to sell it, there was no reason for them to keep it.
Yeah it was always going to come down to this. You can’t make a lot of money on a business model that involves a selling something only once per customer. Eventually they were going to have to either charge money for data storage or sell what they had.
There was no “eventually”. The whole point of their business was to sell it. They’ve been selling it since day one.
Exactly why I never even considered dealing with those DNA companies. They’re a privacy nightmare.
You can reset your password a whole lot easier than resetting your DNA.
Isn’t it already?
Fuck this company.
“Oh no, the consequences of my own actions!” - The CEO, probably
You think their self awareness is higher than I do
no
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It was always a scam. Glad they are dying.
It will be interesting to see what the company that buys all their data will do with it.
Sell it to insurance companies for even more profit!
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