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User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web
(www.businessinsider.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Well… that data was not in safe hands in the beginning considering facts that the whole company has very close ties to Alphabet and Google.
You can say whatever you like about Google invading privacy and generally spying on us, but they are probably the best tech company when it comes to security. They practically never get hacked
Companies have to know about an attack and announce it to the public for it to exist? For all anyone knows Google is littered with backdoors and zero days and the people responsible are smart enough to siphon off the data quietly. Nothing is safe online and we need to stop pretending Google wouldn't downplay or sweep a breach under the rug to save face.
Google shouldn't be trusted with the data we give them in the first place.
While I agree with this, I also must say that yes, EU law literally says that you have to disclose data breaches in 72 hours or something (can't remember exactly how many). If something happened, we would probably know it