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23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Hope this isn't a repeated submission. Funny how they're trying to deflect blame after they tried to change the EULA post breach.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are services that check provided credentials against a dictionary of compromised ones and reject them. Off the top of my head Microsoft Azure does this and so does Nextcloud.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This assumes that the compromised credentials were made public prior to the exfiltration. In this case, it wasn’t as the data was being sold privately on the dark web. HIBP, Azure, and Nextcloud would have done nothing to prevent this.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Yea, you're right. Good point.