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this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2023
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Nobody's genome was lost. What happened was, users with weak passwords had their accounts compromised, something like less than 2,000 of them, and from those accounts, bad actors were able to access and download family tree data for something like 6.5 million accounts.
I don't really see how the data lost is actionable in any way except for the spoofed "Hey gramma! It's me! I'm in jail and I need bail money!" phone calls.
Yes, and if my genome was stolen I'd probably be dead.
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