Yep. Don’t get me wrong, I think 23andme deserves the heat. Mostly for allowing so many relatives from being visible on their page. If 14K accounts were compromised and 6M relatives were downloaded, that’s 428 per account.
I can’t imagine anyone would benefit from finding relatives beyond sharing a great-great-great grandparent. It seems to be a mistake to allow for hundreds if not thousands of matches to be displayed.
Cause although the DNA data wasn’t hacked. You could quite accurately infer what a relative’s raw DNA could look like if you had the raw DNA of the compromised account AND the percentage of shared DNA.
I can’t imagine anyone would benefit from finding relatives beyond sharing a great-great-great grandparent. It seems to be a mistake to allow for hundreds if not thousands of matches to be displayed.
Cause although the DNA data wasn’t hacked. You could quite accurately infer what a relative’s raw DNA could look like if you had the raw DNA of the compromised account AND the percentage of shared DNA.