23andme: 7M accounts hacked DNA data(theguardian.com) |
23andme: 7M accounts hacked DNA data(theguardian.com) |
Then the media ran away with the 6M figure because the shared profiles of anyone in the Family DNA thing were also available to those 14K users.
I'd love to pretend that HN can see right through that, but if you read any of the threads about it they fell for it hook-line-and-sinker. You wouldn't even know from those threads that 23AndMe wasn't even itself compromised nor DNA for "6M" people weren't stolen.
I can’t imagine anyone would benefit from finding relatives beyond sharing a great-great-great grandparent. It seems to be a mistake to allow for hundreds if not thousands of matches to be displayed.
Cause although the DNA data wasn’t hacked. You could quite accurately infer what a relative’s raw DNA could look like if you had the raw DNA of the compromised account AND the percentage of shared DNA.