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

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    11 months ago

    I’m honestly asking what the impact to the users is from this breach.

    The stolen info was used to databases of people with jewish ancestry that were sold on the dark web. I think there was a list of similar DB of people with chinese ancestry. 23andme’s poor security practices have directly helped violent white supremecists find targets.

    If you’re so incompetent that you can’t stop white supremecists from getting identifiable information about people from minorities, there is a compelling public interest for your company to be shut down.

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        11 months ago

        Why do you think someone would buy illegally obtained lists of people with Jewish or Chinese ancestry? And who do you think would be buying it?

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            Scammers would buy all info, not specifically targeted to people of Jewish or Chinese descent. That’s not what’s being sold.

            Who do you think would want only information about people with Jewish or Chinese ancestry, and why?