Gee, WHAT a surprise! Shocked am I. Shocked, I say!

23andMe confirms hackers accessed data of 6.9 million users

I wish yall could spend one night at work with me, this wouldn’t even make your radar.

Technology, AI, and other things are making it so easy that you don’t even have to be skilled to do stupid shit like this any more.

Who do I contact about changing my results?

There are a few things I'd like to add in, and a few things I'd like less of.

Probably an alphabet agency. Yes very shocking I tell ya.

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Originally posted by radioman:
Who do I contact about changing my results?

The Lord, thy God

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Hackers were able to breach those accounts because the customers had used the same username and password on 23andMe as they had on other websites that had been previously compromised.

Well, there's your problem right there.

It doesn't take a sophisticated hacker, or really any skill at all, if users are lazy/complacent enough to reuse usernames and passwords on multiple sites. If you do that, and just one of the sites gets hacked and user info posted on the dark web (like happens all the damn time with simple websites without robust security, like webstores and forums), they can then go on to access all your shit on every site.

It doesn't matter how good 23andMe's security is, if your "same on every site" username and password got hacked last year from Joe Schmoe's Bait & Tackle Supply Dot Com. They can just log right in as you.

Don't. Reuse. Passwords.
And if the website allows it, use Two Factor Authentication.

^^^ It's worse than that. If you have a lazy or unsophisticated relative who used the same password on 23andMe then your informations may have been stolen.

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y accessing those accounts to access "Credential Stuffed Accounts," hackers were able to access roughly 5.5 million DNA Relatives profile files. An additional 1.4 million customers participating in the DNA Relatives feature had their Family Tree profile information access, which is a limited subset of the DNA Relative profile information.