{"id":43471,"date":"2024-01-07T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T02:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43471"},"modified":"2024-01-07T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T02:28:57","slug":"23-and-me-blames-victims-for-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/23-and-me-blames-victims-for-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"23 and Me blames victims for data breach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>23andMe, the genetic testing company, is facing over 30 lawsuits after a massive data breach, affecting nearly half of its customers. The breach, which initially compromised about 14,000 accounts through credential stuffing, eventually led to the exposure of 6.9 million users&#8217; genetic and ancestry data. This widespread access was facilitated by users opting into the DNA Relatives feature, which shares data with people considered relatives on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>In a controversial move, 23andMe blamed the victims, claiming that the breach resulted from users recycling passwords, not from the company&#8217;s security measures. Critics argue this stance overlooks the company&#8217;s responsibility to safeguard personal and genetic information against such attacks. Following the breach, 23andMe reset all customer passwords and mandated multi-factor authentication, which was previously optional. The company also modified its terms of service, seemingly to deter class action lawsuits and mass arbitration claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23andMe, the genetic testing company, is facing over 30 lawsuits after a massive data breach, affecting nearly half of its customers. The breach, which initially compromised about 14,000 accounts through credential stuffing, eventually led to the exposure of 6.9 million users&#8217; genetic and ancestry data. This widespread access was facilitated by users opting into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[1180,275],"class_list":["post-43471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-todays-news","tag-23andme","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43473,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43471\/revisions\/43473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}