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"On Oct. 6, news broke that 23andMe, the genomics company that collects genetic
material from thousands of people for ancestry and genetic predisposition
tests, had a massive data breach.
But as it turns out, the company’s servers were not hacked. Rather, hackers
targeted hundreds of individual user accounts — allegedly those that had
repeated passwords. After gaining access to the accounts, hackers could
leverage the “DNA relatives matches” function of 23andMe to get information
about thousands of other people.
This data breach challenges how we think about privacy, data security and
corporate accountability in the information economy."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
