Doesn’t help that they immediately updated their user agreement to avoid responsibility. Nothing says give our product a chance like that.
Honestly, even with really shitty notoreity and legal troubles, stock prices don’t reach pennies without gross mismanagement of shares and offers.
Or have they just been unprofitable every quarter for years?
Refreshing to have some sort of consequences for being negligent with people’s data
Too bad the consequences are not prison.
No, they’ve been heading south for years. I would have loved for it to be a drop in response to the data breach, but this was just a company that was run incompetently.
Which data were they negligent with? I thought it was breaches on other sites that gave reused passwords.
There are still all kinds of things a company can do to mitigate at least some of this. New browser, new location, forced two-factor auth, etc.
Cmon, we know their target market was dumbasses. How many dumbasses do you know that use mfa, or that actually look at a login notification before hitting “yes, it’s me”?
Credential stuffing is a well understood part of the threat landscape that 23 and me negligently failed to account for, allowing hackers to access 7 million people’s info after hacking only 14 thousand users.
I don’t trust them or anyone else with my data, let alone my DNA
that stuff that you breathe out, slough off and leave literally every places youve ever been? yeah, need to keep that under wraps.
Disingenuous at best
i care more about my amazon password leaking than anyone having my irrevocably unchangeable dna. why worry about it?
Found the 23&me CEO 👆
huh?
Don’t play dumb
For your entertainment:
no
deleted by creator
Get ready for that data to be sold.
Exactly why I never even considered dealing with those DNA companies. They’re a privacy nightmare.
Isn’t it already?
Awesome, now your genetic data will be sold to highest bidder
“Oh no, the consequences of my own actions!” - The CEO, probably
Every fucking sentence in that article is dripping with bullshit, right to the fucking retard telling people to buy the stock. Fuck all these people