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.

  • @[email protected]English
    71•1 year ago

    I think most internet users are straight up smooth brained, i have to pull my wife’s hair to get her to not use my first name twice and the year we were married as a password and even then I only succeed 30% of the time, and she had the nerve to bitch and moan when her Walmart account got hacked, she’s just lucky she didn’t have the cc attached to it.

    And she makes 3 times as much as I do, there is no helping people.

      • R0cket_M00seEnglish
        25•1 year ago

        I have friends that occasionally bitch about the way things are but refuse to engage with whatever systems are set up to help solve whatever given problem they have. “it shouldn’t be like that! It should work like X”

        Well, it doesn’t. We can try to change things for the better but refusal to engage with the current system isn’t an excuse for why your life is shit.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      Lately I try to get people to use Chrome’s built-it password manager. It’s simple and it works across platforms.

      • @[email protected]English
        21•1 year ago

        I get that people aren’t a fan of Google, and I’m not either, but this is a reasonable option that would be better than what the vast majority of people are doing now…

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          That’s what I’m getting at. It’s an upgrade for most users and certainly novices. I thought I was being cleaver with a password manager and they got hacked twice (you know who).

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          You and I can choose our tools as the best for our use case and for the good of the internet in general, but our non-tech friends can’t.

          I convinced a friend to use KeePass, but he wouldn’t spend the time to learn it. I now tell him and others like him to just use Chrome’s suggested password.