Tech’s New Blame Game
Tech is fond of its mantras, especially in Silicon Valley, and the latest seems to be, ‘It’s You, Not Us.”
23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached, TechCrunch reported. In December, 23andMe admitted that hackers had stolen the genetic and ancestry data of 6.9 million users, nearly half of all its customers.” Since users “had opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature, an optional feature allows customers to automatically share some of their data with people who are considered their relatives on the platform,” the hackers were able to scrape personal data from another 6.9 million customers whose accounts were not directly hacked.
The original hack had been to some 14,000 accounts.