23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews
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.
I can't believe people voluntarily sent them their DNA.
Top notch victim blaming you got there...
ETA because I don't engage with bigots:
Imagine that, the descendants of one of the biggest genocides in history want to try and piece their history together, and use the available tools to do it with, fucking shocker..
Then, when they continue getting targeted just for existing, privileged ignorant bigots who couldn't even imagine what having over 90% of their community gassed is like, and have never been oppressed for who they are a day in their lives, simply can't help themselves but jump to justify them being attacked again:
tHe bAstArDs dEseRve eVerYthInG tHey GeT!!11
And somehow not a word about the attackers, nor the company that failed its customers.
Sure, antisemitic Jan..🙄🙄🙄
"I can't believe this incredibly obvious thing happened!" Isn't really victim blaming, is it? They're not saying they did it to themselves or they deserved it, they're saying that this was bound to happen and people volunteered their DNA to a private company
Thanks!
As if victim blaming is always wrong.
They also sent your DNA involuntarily. You can be IDed of someone in your genetic vicinity has sent theirs. They don't even need to be super close.
You say that like it's a negative thing.
Some people actually want to know things and are curious about where they came from, what they're made of, who their family is.
Submitting your DNA can increase your knowledge. It sounds like you can't believe people would seek knowledge.
I’d love to know all of that. I just don’t ever trust a private corporation to safeguard my highly personal and unique DNA information from:
It’s too easy for a company to skimp on staff and digital security and then say “we’re soooo sowwwy, have 3 months of identity fraud protection on us” if they find a breach.
The point I think you could be missing is that the organizations which do this have been at best irresponsible, at worst negligent, in protecting customers personal information. There are obviously benefits to this a genetic record. Preserving a comprehensive genetic record for future generations to study is one. A database for law enforcement to use to solve very serious crimes like murder and rape. All that would be wonderful, but that information is already being misused and abused. Most people, myself included, don't think these organizations will ever be responsible to their customers cause who the hell would believe that these days?
There are a lot of dumb people that wanted to know they were a pure breed European or something to brag about like an IQ test
But they trusted [youtuber]!!!
Bypass paywall: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2F23andme-credential-stuffing-data-stolen%2F
Thank you!
The company said its systems were not breached and that attackers gathered the data by guessing the login credentials of a group of users and then scraping more people’s information from a feature known as DNA Relatives.
The information does not appear to include actual, raw genetic data.
This doesn't absolve them of anything. If you see thousands of accounts being individually logged in from the same block of IP addresses, and those users have never logged in from there before. That should raise red flags. No, Fred from California shouldn't be logging in from a vpn based out of Ireland right after Anne from NY logged in from that same VPN from Ireland.
Users are dumb. This is why there's tools to track odd behavior and clamp down on it.
The data that's available on the hacker forum doesn't contain the raw DNA, but that's just a promotion to sell much bigger dataset, which the hackers claim has the DNA... https://twitter.com/mattjay/status/1710370443968856559
a lot of people in these comments who live in privacy-conscious bubbles and aren’t very familiar with “normal” people
there's also this attitude that certain users never did anything wrong. YouSureAboutThat.jpg
They never signed up for anything that compromised their privacy?
Also, we all live in abodes with wooden doors and glass windows that anyone with a rock or a stick can break into. Doesn't mean we deserve to be murdered in our sleep.
And people wonder why I’m paranoid about privacy…
This is why you don't reuse passwords
I am a 23andMe user, and yes I voluntarily sent them my DNA sample. Shit on me all you want. You probably don't have to live with multiple genetic conditions, chronic illnesses, and have a family history of several more.
Must be nice to be privileged with a healthy body and to get to care about privacy concerns instead wondering which genetic condition you'll die of first.
ITT: People who have never experienced medical gaslighting before. Think about the relevance of your experiences before commenting. ITT: People who don't live with chronic ille
I think you are also cursed with the gene that makes you a dick.
Obviously there's good and bad reasons to get tested.
The point is to be more mindful of who you share your data with. It's to protect yourself, not to make you feel like a fool.
Read the rest of the comments here before you comment. Everyone is bashing 23andMe users and the bubble they live in while the irony is completely lost on them.
Your so called 'obvious reasons' are anything but obviously to the average lemmy user who will find every excuse to feel superior about their niche privacy loving community with no clue how the real world works.
You're excuse is such garbage it's beyond stupid. You've got health concerns so you willingly gave up your privacy to a tech company..... instead of going through, y'know the medical system which has checks and balances for this purpose.
You're the people they want to be their victims. Ignorant people driven by fear.
instead of going through, y'know the medical system which has checks and balances for this purpose.
This is the single dumbest take on healthcare I have ever heard. You've clearly never had to deal with extensive medical issues or chronic illnesses, or you're a straight white guy in your 30s and have the privilege of being believed by your doctor.
I've been forcefully misdiagnosed with 'anxiety' by so many doctors who wouldn't listen to me. No one gave a shit until I threatened to report them to the medical board. That's the only time they took my symptoms seriously and bothered to do a blood test, where they were proven wrong. No amount of sorry from them will undo the damage they've done.
This was one of 5 incidences where I had to advocate for my own health against the doctor's preconceptions because theywould rather diagnose me based on my age and gender rather than my symptoms.
Medical gaslighting is a pervasive issue that disproportionately affects women, POC, young people, and LGBTQ. It's a systemic issue that kills people through medical neglect. I would be dead by now had I not fought this hard for my own diagnoses.
The fact that you think modern health care is some pristine and fully reliable process instead of the shit show it is just speaks of how little you've had to deal with. Sit down and check yourself before taking about ignorance.
But..... isnt that what doctors are for? Like, the people who have multiple government mandated levels of security around your data? And medical expertise in which genetic conditions you will die of first?
Idiots believe their personal information was safe, with a private company.
For real, they already share it with the government which is the real danger anyways.
Nononono! It's only dangerous if your government turns fascist and tries to harm you.
Oh!
Wait a second....
My uncle tried to get me to do this for his family tree project.
Super happy I didn't cave to his persistence.
Wonder what the angle of targeting Jews is here? Are they trying to figure out why they've got stomach issues or something?
Wonder what the angle of targeting Jews is here?
…are you seriously asking? I can’t figure out if you’re trolling here. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess it wasn’t breached by a group of geneticists looking to cure Tay-Sachs.
I mean, targeting jews is obvious, no? Some racial purity freaks are trying to target the genetic root of a minority group.
23andMe basically drafted up a list of as many jewish descendants as they could get, which means the lunatics can use it as an easy list of targets.
Heres hoping the fuckers get caught before they can do anything with the data.
There's a whole conspiracy regarding Covid that RFK Jr. is blathering about. Supposedly this data breach targeted Jews and Chinese folks. I'm assuming that it's related in some way, but it's not clear how.
If people were actually taught history they would have known exactly what their genetic information being in a registry would result in.
Ooof.
IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black should be standard reading for high school students.