Genealogy Site Exposes One Million Profiles to Law Enforcement in Security Breach

Mailing your spit to an ancestry site and uploading it to a DNA matching database has seemed like a pretty bad idea since 2018 when federal law enforcement officials tracked down the Golden State killer through a discarded tissue and his relatives’ online genetic profiles on GEDMatch. Since that episode generated a…

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via Gizmodo

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