• silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    Apparently you failed to read and/or comprehend the article.

    “From these 14,000 initial victims, however, the hackers were able to then access the personal data of the other 6.9 million million victims because they had opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature. This optional feature allows customers to automatically share some of their data with people who are considered their relatives on the platform.”