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23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews (www.wired.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

My uncle tried to get me to do this for his family tree project.

Super happy I didn't cave to his persistence.

Wonder what the angle of targeting Jews is here? Are they trying to figure out why they've got stomach issues or something?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Wonder what the angle of targeting Jews is here?

…are you seriously asking? I can’t figure out if you’re trolling here. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess it wasn’t breached by a group of geneticists looking to cure Tay-Sachs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean, targeting jews is obvious, no? Some racial purity freaks are trying to target the genetic root of a minority group.

23andMe basically drafted up a list of as many jewish descendants as they could get, which means the lunatics can use it as an easy list of targets.

Heres hoping the fuckers get caught before they can do anything with the data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You think there's a group that's going to take this as a hit list?

I know shits going downhill but I didn't think I needed to start thinking about packing bags....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I dont wanna scaremonger or anything but, like.... what the fuck else would they use that data for?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As a power fantasy mostly. They might pass it around and use it to jerk each other off but not much more than that. The problem is, it's only a fantasy until it makes it's way into the hands of someone with the means and derangement to act on it: two qualities which, depending on where you live, can be unsettlingly easy to come by

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Engineering a targeted virus?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Thankfully, thats not quite how viruses work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There's a whole conspiracy regarding Covid that RFK Jr. is blathering about. Supposedly this data breach targeted Jews and Chinese folks. I'm assuming that it's related in some way, but it's not clear how.