@ret2bed @jomo @lorenzofb it's not even good ancestry information. They sequenced a few of your genes and made some good guesses through statistical analysis about who your ancestors were. That's it.

The data stolen is equivalent to Mr O'Connor of Boston having a private Twitter profile someone hacked and saw the "Kiss me I'm Irish" posts and now they know you're Irish. Congratu-fucking-lations on figuring that out. It was a real mystery.

As an attacker the most valuable information here is your social graph so they can try to scam you by claiming to be your distant relatives. They already do that on Facebook; my mom gets messages all the time from scammers who pretend to be my childhood neighbors with their real pictures and everything. Which is crazy because the real people have real Facebook profiles but Facebook lets these scammers get away with this crap and of course my mom falls for it so I have to stop her from sending money to these jerks, but I digress...


23&Me tried to claim I'm like 1% Ashkenazi Jew which is 100% false, so what are these attackers really getting anyway? They don't get your raw DNA. They get the equivalent of a palm reading from a digital fortune teller.