23&Me had their whole database stolen. ~6 million genetic fingerprints and the associated personal information ... POOF.
They paid a 30 million judgement in a class action and then the board resigned. I’m willing to put money on the corporation that “rises from their wreckage” will have a multi hundreds of millions “capital” infusion from biomedical/pharmaceutical sources as the actual consideration for the transfer of that database to inquiring minds...
“23&Me had their whole database stolen. ~6 million genetic fingerprints and the associated personal information ... POOF.”
You’ve got the story pretty wrong.
23andMe has not been hacked, they never lost their database, and no genetic data has been stolen.
What did happen was that hackers logged into people’s accounts (14k) using phished or reused credentials, and scraped family tree records that covered 6 million people.
So what they have is some names, and relationships, but not genetic data.