<story><title>Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/hacker-leaks-millions-more-23andme-user-records-on-cybercrime-forum/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdamm</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter. The genetic matching models are so primitive that there&amp;#x27;s really not much of value in the data anyway. Facebook and Google have a far more accurate picture of what can be used to manipulate you. 23andme is little more than a curiosity.&lt;p&gt;My data is probably in this breach too, and I am not going to waste one second of my life on regret over it.&lt;p&gt;Stay tuned to find out if you get something from the class action lawsuit. Like the experion hack, you may at least get an interesting coffee table artifact when they mail you a pathetically small check.</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>23andMe is one of my biggest regrets in my life, I did it before I really started caring about privacy. It was on sale on Amazon and yeah.&lt;p&gt;It sucks since I have zero trust that they would actually delete my data if I asked them too, and even if they do is that data still living somewhere fed into some model or research or whatever.&lt;p&gt;I hate to say that there is a part of me that kinda doesn&amp;#x27;t want to know if my data is a part of this, this just feels different than a credit card or some shopping data leaking.&lt;p&gt;Even worse since I have not gone to 23andme in a while, I feel like this was likely also before I cared about proper password security so it would not surprise me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>The one issue is, unlike social data, you’ve not just given up your data, but you’ve condemned your entire future lineage to this leak. All their genetic information can be partially imputed from this info.&lt;p&gt;Maybe this doesn’t matter today but who knows what it’ll be valued at 50 years from now?&lt;p&gt;Don’t upload your saliva to the internet folks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/hacker-leaks-millions-more-23andme-user-records-on-cybercrime-forum/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bdamm</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t really matter. The genetic matching models are so primitive that there&amp;#x27;s really not much of value in the data anyway. Facebook and Google have a far more accurate picture of what can be used to manipulate you. 23andme is little more than a curiosity.&lt;p&gt;My data is probably in this breach too, and I am not going to waste one second of my life on regret over it.&lt;p&gt;Stay tuned to find out if you get something from the class action lawsuit. Like the experion hack, you may at least get an interesting coffee table artifact when they mail you a pathetically small check.</text></item><item><author>nerdjon</author><text>23andMe is one of my biggest regrets in my life, I did it before I really started caring about privacy. It was on sale on Amazon and yeah.&lt;p&gt;It sucks since I have zero trust that they would actually delete my data if I asked them too, and even if they do is that data still living somewhere fed into some model or research or whatever.&lt;p&gt;I hate to say that there is a part of me that kinda doesn&amp;#x27;t want to know if my data is a part of this, this just feels different than a credit card or some shopping data leaking.&lt;p&gt;Even worse since I have not gone to 23andme in a while, I feel like this was likely also before I cared about proper password security so it would not surprise me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keep_reading</author><text>This is also my opinion: they stole a really poor social graph, that&amp;#x27;s all</text></comment>