Never re-use a password between services; every password for every system should be unique. Use a “password manager” to help.
Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) / multi-factor authentication (MFA) on any platform/service you can. It makes logging in a little longer but it makes these kinds of attacks much harder to pull off.
Suggested password manager:
Whatever password manager you choose don’t choose last pass lasspass breach
They’ll all get hacked sooner or later. Ironically, a physical paper notebook might be the safest option right now.
Evening has an upside and a downside.
This only happened because we expected it to happen.
So we caused it. Got it.
What should have 23andme done?
I contacted them to find out if my account was hacked and their automated system claimed they have not experienced a breach and then tried to connect me with an actual person.
Verify they’re a person by having them read you the last 4 base pairs of their DNA.
It’s been a few hours of “waiting for an agent” without progress so I’m giving up for the day. I think 23andme must be very busy with unhappy customers, or is massively understaffed.
and nobody was suprised
It has already been handed over to the governments of the world
Perfect example as to why you don’t use the same password for every account you create on the internet. And use the same email address for everything you do. And like to use the same username on every site you sign up for.
Yeah is it so hard to have like 50+ different email addresses as well as passwords for them?
I know that’s a joke but even Apple offers that in iCloud. I for sure use different passwords but forget that obscured email is even an option.
