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
    0•11 months ago

    I admit, I’ve not used the site so I don’t know the answers to the questions I would need, in order to properly respond:

    • Were these opt-in or opt-out?
    • Were the risks made clear?
    • Were the options fine tuned enough that you could share some info, but not all?

    From the sounds of it, I doubt enough was done by the company to ensure people were aware of the risks. Because so many people were shocked by what was able to be skimmed.

    • capitalEnglish
      0•11 months ago

      I’m convinced that everyone pissed at the company for users reusing passwords has a reading comprehension problem because I definitely already answered your first question in the comment you responded to.

      I haven’t used the service either - I don’t want more of my data out there. So I can’t answer the other questions.

      Users were probably not thinking about the implications of a breach after sharing but it stands to reason that if you share data with an account, and that account gets compromised, your data is compromised.

      We’ve all been through several of those from actual hacks at other companies (looking at you, T-Mobile). I refuse to believe people aren’t aware of this general issue by now.