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At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.

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[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 87 points 1 year ago (35 children)

I can't believe people voluntarily sent them their DNA.

[–] batmangrundies@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The worst part is it you have enough family members who used these services your details are likely on there too.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Though if neither a father nor his sons have submitted their DNA, the service will lack all that Y-DNA though, right? I'm glad I made the right decision to not send in my DNA to those sites, despite my sisters hounding me to do it after our dad refused, lol.

It's a shame though, because family genetic networking is interesting, but it just goes to show you can't trust these companies. (Even though the company didn't really do anything truly wrong in this case, as it's simply users reusing passwords, they still should have been better/more proactive especially with such sensitive information)

[–] macracanthorhynchus@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Y chromosomes have very little information on them, and the DNA there is pretty highly conserved. You're not really keeping any secrets by hiding your Y chromosome away.

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