23 and Me. 6.9 Million stolen

[Orange Juice]

What are you going to do with all that DNA data?

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch

Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

techcrunch.com

 

[4Waters]

The dems are gonna start framing patriots.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Or cloning democrats to pump up the votes.

 

[rivermobster]

They are gonna make a shit ton of money on it.

 

[Orange Juice]

I'm pretty sure every U.S. Citizen in the U.S. has been sampled and inventoried by now, whether they know it or not.

Maybe the CIA or another foreign intelligence agency needed that data to find a spy network? Or something on those lines

 

[4Waters]

I'm pretty sure every U.S. Citizen in the U.S. has been sampled and inventoried by now, whether they know it or not.

Maybe the CIA or another foreign intelligence agency needed that data to find a spy network? Or something on those lines

I've never done 23 and me or ancestry but my aunt and sister have so I'm in the database

 

[Orange Juice]

I've never done 23 and me or ancestry but my aunt and sister have so I'm in the database

If you were a spy in China, and all they had was your discarded coffee cup from Singapore Starbucks, your entire family could be at risk with that data.

Or, it could be used for blackmail schemes.

 

[J DUNN]

My BIL in FBI says, "NEVER EVER do a DNA 'genealogy' test!" He continued with just 5 short stories to support his statement. Maybe this article will be his 6th.

 

[4Waters]

If you were a spy in China, and all they had was your discarded coffee cup from Singapore Starbucks, your entire family could be at risk with that data.

Or, it could be used for blackmail schemes.

Never been to China and the patriot that I am means that I don't drink starbucks. I support local mom and pop shops that have better coffee anyway

 

[Orange Juice]

I've never done 23 and me or ancestry but my aunt and sister have so I'm in the database

My sister is our family genealogist, and has gone back to the late 1600’s. It's all there. Some of the family tree are pissed she did it. I found it interesting, and have so far visited the headstones of my family tree as far back as 1835. 9

 

[4Waters]

My sister is our family genealogist, and has gone back to the late 1600’s. It's all there. Some of the family tree are pissed she did it. I found it interesting, and have so far visited the headstones of my family tree as far back as 1835. 9

I don't really care but yeah my (half) sister and aunt have my dad's side back to the early to mid 1800's I don't know anyone on my mom's side doing anything but I'm sure there is, I know my great grandfather came over from Germany in 1915, and my great grandmother came over from Sicily in 1917. Both were lucky to have made it during WWI. I had a cousin die on the Titanic, Leon Jerome Hampe.

 

[25Elmn8r]

Haven't done the 23and me thing, but a few years ago I went down the rabbit hole and was able to track back to 1689 on my dads side. Only got into the 1800's on my mom's side.

 

[TimeBandit]

My BIL in FBI says, "NEVER EVER do a DNA 'genealogy' test!" He continued with just 5 short stories to support his statement. Maybe this article will be his 6th.

Please share some stories, we could all learn from it.

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

Please share some stories, we could all learn from it.

The lesson is don’t. Just don’t.

 

[RiverDave]

The lesson is don’t. Just don’t.

Problem is it doesn’t matter if you do or don’t.. couple of people in your family do it and your screwed anyways..

 

[stephenkatsea]

I was able to go way back on my maternal grandmother’s side of our family, without submitting any DNA. My my idiot older brother tried to top my research by using 23 & me and his DNA. Told him, WTG dumb shit. I believe, you just gave them a DNA trail for our entire family . . . . WTF?!.

 

[Backlash]

I'll admit, I fell for these shenanigans when my wife asked me to do it a few years ago. I'm guilty.

I've always been intrigued by my family history and have an Aunt on my Father's side who has done a lot of research and is the custodian of records, for lack of better terminology. She has all the details and history for his half of the family. My Mom's side is a little more of a mystery.

The question is, now, what do we as citizens do knowing this information has been breached?

 

[RiverDave]

I'll admit, I fell for these shenanigans when my wife asked me to do it a few years ago. I'm guilty.

I've always been intrigued by my family history and have an Aunt on my Father's side who has done a lot of research and is the custodian of records, for lack of better terminology. She has all the details and history for his half of the family. My Mom's side is a little more of a mystery.

The question is, now, what do we as citizens do knowing this information has been breached?

You will get your 85 cents in the mail
After the class action lawsuit.. the fact they turned all that shit over to the government already there should have been a lawsuit..

 

[LargeOrangeFont]

Problem is it doesn’t matter if you do or don’t.. couple of people in your family do it and your screwed anyways..

I agree. But just don’t anyway. You don’t need to have your DNA as well as all your personal information stolen.

 

[welldigger00]

I donated a lot of DNA in highschool…

 

[traquer]

I want to do it, but I will be using a fake name and PO box. I want to know what my genetics are and how to be healthier, I could care less about my ancestry.

 

[Kachina26]

My sister is our family genealogist, and has gone back to the late 1600’s. It's all there. Some of the family tree are pissed she did it. I found it interesting, and have so far visited the headstones of my family tree as far back as 1835. 9

My aunts did all that, visiting graves all over the place and tracing back into Europe. Then someone got the DNA deal done. Turns out there was a NBE (non-birth event) in the mid 1800's that fucks it all to hell. Probably a war orphan or something along those lines. So there's that.

 

[Flying_Lavey]

I did the free ancestry.com one a couple of years ago and followed my paternal grandmother's side since someone apparently had already done a lot with that. It went WAY back into Medieval time France and quite a few nobility in it. Really crazy to see that.

We found some decent lineage for my grandfather's side that I would like to explore more since they had been in the US forever. The records we found showed they were some of the earliest American settlers in the LA area. One of them was one of the first mayors of Inglewood, back when it was farmers and ranchers.

 

[C-2]

Sum Ting Wong....

 

[monkeyswrench]

50% on Ancestry's database would give a biomedical type more than enough genetic information to build a targeted "illness"...or "cure". Certain diseases harm different ethnicities in different was. The info stolen would give a massive crossection of the populace...

 

[Thunderhead1]

Problem is it doesn’t matter if you do or don’t.. couple of people in your family do it and your screwed anyways..

Reason # 352 why I dont talk to my sister.

 

[mesquito_creek]

I don’t want any of my biological or digital information tracked. So I carry a phone more powerful than the space shuttle, do all my banking online, submit all my medical results electronically, drive cars with tracking, use credit cards and debit cards everywhere I go… etc…

Totally over it… I am part of the borg!

 

[MK1MOD0]

Active duty service members are not allowed to do these public DNA profiles. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize why they wouldn’t want our enemies to know the exact dna of our service members. Think biological warfare.

 

[hallett21]

Active duty service members are not allowed to do these public DNA profiles. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize why they wouldn’t want our enemies to know the exact dna of our service members. Think biological warfare.

How would the US Military even monitor if they took the test or not?

 

[4Waters]

How would the US Military even monitor if they took the test or not?

The results also go to DC now

 

[monkeyswrench]

I don’t want any of my biological or digital information tracked. So I carry a phone more powerful than the space shuttle, do all my banking online, submit all my medical results electronically, drive cars with tracking, use credit cards and debit cards everywhere I go… etc…

Totally over it… I am part of the borg!

One of the reasons I really wanted an automatic movement watch. When stuff goes south, I'll still want to know the time, but I'll leave my phone somewhere else, and be driving the old Chevy.

 

[mesquito_creek]

One of the reasons I really wanted an automatic movement watch. When stuff goes south, I'll still want to know the time, but I'll leave my phone somewhere else, and be driving the old Chevy.

I am retired… I wake up when it gets light and go to bed when it gets dark!

 

[HNL2LHC]

I am retired… I wake up when it gets light and go to bed when it gets dark!

Wait!!!! When did you retire? Congrats!!!! That is awesome…..

 

[monkeyswrench]

I am retired… I wake up when it gets light and go to bed when it gets dark!

No rest for the wicked...I'm partially kind of employed, up before sunrise and usually in bed by the early morning hours. Time is something I've been needing to keep track of...flies by too quick if I don't

 

[Flatsix66]

Remember during the Plandemic that city sanitation was checking for Covid positives under your house, I bet they are a few SW updates and bribes away from knowing the DNA of our shit in a giant database…… that the dems have already sold to China.

 

[mesquito_creek]

Wait!!!! When did you retire? Congrats!!!! That is awesome…..

lol! It will be 2 years this April… My wife joins me in 12 days but her last official day is year end 12/31…

 

[OldSchoolBoats]

We never have and never will do one of these tests.

 

[4Waters]

So the PCR covid tests were the largest DNA collection the government has ever done

 

[pronstar]

If they’re gonna get it, then so be it.
But no fucking way am I giving that up voluntarily.

That’s a massive genie that will never go back in the bottle.