▲ 108 ▼ 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) submitted 2 years ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments They're blaming customers for not having good cybersecurity practices instead of themselves for not having good cybersecurity practices.
[+] mozz@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) The issue isn't just reuse of passwords. Only about 14,000 accounts were breached because of bad passwords. The problem is that those 14k accounts allowed bad actors to access the personal information of nearly 7 million people. It's less "you shouldn't have reused your password," it's more "your neighbor's cousin's sister-in-law's nephew shouldn't have reused his password" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] mozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago ... And you should not opt in to sharing data with people whose security practices you don't know. Don't print your SSN and give it to your inlaws or your grandma. Or your credit card info or anything else. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) The issue isn't just reuse of passwords. Only about 14,000 accounts were breached because of bad passwords. The problem is that those 14k accounts allowed bad actors to access the personal information of nearly 7 million people. It's less "you shouldn't have reused your password," it's more "your neighbor's cousin's sister-in-law's nephew shouldn't have reused his password" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] mozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago ... And you should not opt in to sharing data with people whose security practices you don't know. Don't print your SSN and give it to your inlaws or your grandma. Or your credit card info or anything else. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago ... And you should not opt in to sharing data with people whose security practices you don't know. Don't print your SSN and give it to your inlaws or your grandma. Or your credit card info or anything else. permalink fedilink source parent