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23andMe is responsible for sandboxing that data, however. Which they obviously didn't do.
User opted-in to share those data
You opt in to share your data with Facebook. Would you still consider it an issue if your data was breached because someone else's account was hacked?
I would consider normal that my photos that I only share with some people were leaked if one of those people's accounts got hacked.
Sure, it's a breach, but I would blame my idiot friend for re-using passwords. I wouldn't blame the service for doing exactly what I expected the service to do, and is the reason I chose to use the service in the first place.
It's also the reason I've very selective about what I share with anyone online, friend or otherwise.
If you share your nudes with the "friends only" privacy settings on facebook, and someone else accesses one of your friends accounts because they reused their password and proceeds to leak those photos, is it the fault of Facebook, your friend, the person leaking them, or you?
Because that is exactly what happened here. Credit stuffing reused passwords and scraping opt-in "friends only" shared data between accounts.
Private health data was compromised as well, on a smaller scale. It doesn't make sense to blame users for a security breach of a corporation, literally ever. That's my point. The friend was dumb, and you shared something maybe you shouldn't have. But that doesn't also absolve the company of poor security practices. I very strongly doubt that 14,000 people knew or consciously chose to directly share with a collective 7 million people.
But they did. All 7 million of them - that's why their data was visible for those 14000.
As it says in the article:
Here's what each and every one of those 7 million people opted in and agreed to:
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004659068-DNA-Relatives-The-Genetic-Relative-Basics
Did you not read my comment? Users opt in to sharing data with other accounts, which means if one account is compromised, then every account that allowed them access would have their data compromised too. That's not on the company, because they feature can't work without allowing access.