In a letter to victims who filed a lawsuit against the company, 23andMe blames its breach on customers for reusing passwords.

Hope this isn’t a repeated submission. Funny how they’re trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

  • Cosmic ClericEnglish
    6•5 months ago

    Users used bad passwords. Their accounts where accessed using their legitimate, bad, passwords.

    Just as an anecdotal counterpoint, I am a 23andMe customer who did receive notification of my account was accessed and personal information obtained.

    This was my password at the time: 7Kk5bXjIdfB25

    That password was auto-generated for me by the BitWarden app.

    So for what it’s worth I don’t think my password was a ‘bad’ password.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•5 months ago

      Your direct account was accessed or some of your information was access through a compromised account? those are big differences and from what I’ve read only the latter should have been possible. and in my opinion, not such a big deal.