Posted on 02/13/2024 7:50:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
In autumn 2023, a hacker called Golem posted on a well-known message board for cybercriminals, announcing a trove of data stolen from 23andMe, one of the biggest names in at-home DNA testing.
Golem boasted about having access to the accounts of people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage who had sent their DNA to 23andMe, and offered to sell it to whoever was prepared to pay.
"tailored ethnic groupings, individualized data sets, pinpointed origin estimations, haplogroup details, phenotype information, photographs, links to hundreds of potential relatives, and, most crucially, raw data profiles".
The purported ability of Jews to blend in – to "pass" as white – has been at the root of antisemitic conspiracy theories. During the Holocaust, the Nazis forced Jews to wear yellow stars so they could be immediately identifiable. A data breach that included ethnicity estimates given in ancestry reports could mean that Jewish people who had taken a DNA test could potentially have a permanent digital yellow star next to their names, photographs and geographical location.
With the data of half 23andMe's customers now in the hands of cybercriminals, the breach clearly affected far more than just Ashkenazi Jewish account holders. Indeed, in subsequent posts on the hackers forum, Golem supposedly offered the data of British, German and Chinese 23andMe users, as well as that of 23andMe chief executive Anne Wojcicki, her ex-husband and Google founder Sergey Brin, Elon Musk and members of the British Royal Family.
In an age where an increasing number of financial decisions are made by algorithms that scrape all possible sources of information about an individual, there is a serious possibility of financial loss and discrimination arising from a leak of genetic data.
Even if you haven't taken one of these tests, it's likely that you have a close relative who has...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
The interpretation of the courts is that once the DNA/tissue leaves the body, it is no longer the property of the individual.
“ The purported ability of Jews to blend in – to “pass” as white – has been at the root of antisemitic conspiracy theories”
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All the Jews I’m personally acquainted with are white. I don’t follow this “blend in” business. Just sayin’.
If you trust your biggest secret to anybody with internet access you are making a huge mistake.
“With the data of half 23andMe’s customers now in the hands of cybercriminals...”
Good gosh!
I was considering doing the 23andMe thing.....NOT NOW!
That seems to counter EVERY paternity case EVER filed.
I guess one should careful when sharing their DNA with others.
LOL!
I’m not sure why the article singles them out when they’re not exclusively impacted by this.
Not to worry, since all genetic testing is done in China, the PLA will keep it safe, along with millions and millions of others, while they use it to work on a fatal genetic virus.
This is an interesting development.
You’ll know.
There will be out of control drinking and crazy dancing and shouting.
This strikes me as a problem in Muslim countries or parts of civilized countries that are controlled by Muslims. They are the likely buyers of lists of Jews. Bad stuff.
The left should be happy that they never found their purported gay gene they used to assure us existed.
Both companies are tools whereby the oligarchs seek to control us.
You should never volunteer your DNA to anyone, and always use a VPN.
Ok. Seven paragraphs in and it hasn’t said anything about what happens if your DNA is “hacked.”
It did have a chance to make anti-Semitic comments in this seven short paragraphs.
Many people uses these services to trace ancestry and family trees. But some people discover secrets about their ancestry.
Serious anti-semitism.
I thought this was from some fringe site.
It’s the BBC.
You’re being facetious, right?
What makes you think I’m being facetious?
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