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23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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They stuffed passwords to get them access to information not just on the compromised accounts' profiles but to detailed data on a large group of other people whose accounts weren't compromised through a function within 23andMe's database browser.