Gregory's Server@dko @thomasfuchs @pjohanneson just trying to understand the outrage and indignation here - again they’re well within the norm for orgs and they also didn’t get any of their systems breached so saying they were hacked is misinformation. They have normal users doing normal bad things. but it’s dna so .. .. .. must be so much worse ? People need recalibration.
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@dko @dplattsf @thomasfuchs @pjohanneson I work in this field. It was a credential stuffing attack. Google that. There wasn't much they could have done about it. However, Everything they've done after the fact has revealed them to be the shitty corporation that most corporations eventually reveal themselves to be. It's a breach, but not like a breach where there were default creds exposed on the internet (equifax) or some idiot (LastPass). @BigMcLargeHuge @dko @dplattsf @thomasfuchs @pjohanneson You work in what field? There absolutely are many very effective ways to make sure your idiot users do not choose bad passwords. You could for example make them accept an autogenerated one, enforce some sort of second check - perhaps you are familiar with when you get a pin sent to you on your phone? We can already tell their users are people who do not care about their own or their families privacy and so probably warrant extra checks. |
@dplattsf @thomasfuchs @pjohanneson "well within the norm" is not a security standard. that's not what users signed up for and if it were plainly stated no one would ever reveal identifying data to these people, let alone their genome.
How are you not getting why this is a significant breach?
Data brokers have no "do not buy list". They will get any info from any source that's available.
"didn't get their systems breached" is not a statement i would make if 14,000 user accounts were compromised, which later led to disclosing the data of 50% of your users.
you know the first thing the attackers did was release a million lines of user data, right? for free, right away, and all of those users were jewish
can you see how this data could be misused now?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/23andme-user-data-targeting-ashkenazi-jews-leaked-online-rcna119324
@dplattsf @thomasfuchs @pjohanneson "well within the norm" is not a security standard. that's not what users signed up for and if it were plainly stated no one would ever reveal identifying data to these people, let alone their genome.
How are you not getting why this is a significant breach?
Data brokers have no "do not buy list". They will get any info from any source that's available.