MyHeritage, a genealogy and DNA company, posts product news, security notices, historical photo features, and photo tools.
HN links it for the 2018 data breach statement, with commenters comparing it to 23andme's response, plus its 1920s photo and video posts.
Thank you for calling this what it is - a hack - despite 23andme's strenuous efforts to paint this as the fault of millions of users (see https://blog.23andme.com/articles/addressing-data-security-concerns) rather than owning the vast technical or management failure that allowed this to continue undetected for months.
Without the risk of a giant fine or, say, jail time, many tech giants can and do get away with managing their data security badly.
That's right. It's happened before, and will continue to happen as long as there are no consequences.
Note that 23andMe is not the first online genealogy service to get hacked:
- In 2017, MyHeritage had 92 million accounts hacked https://www.hackread.com/dna-testing-website-myheritage-hacked-user-accounts-stolen/.
- In 2020, MyHeritage users were targeted in a separate phishing scheme. https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/07/security-alert-malicious-phishing-attempt-detected-possibly-connected-to-gedmatch-breach/
- GEDmatch admitted “all user permissions were reset” in a 2020 attack. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/hackers-gedmatch-dna-privacy
- Ancestry and Ancestry affiliated companies have had multiple security breaches over the past 10 years (https://www.hackread.com/software-firm-leaks-ancestry-com-user-data/)
- Ancestry has also destroyed people's archives when it decided it was no longer profitable or important enough to keep them.…
Forget cartoons. Here's a video shot during the premiere of a Charlie Chaplin movie in the 1920's showing a woman walking along holding something to her ear and talking to herself. Looks an awful lot like a cell phone to me.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2010/10/a-mobile-phone-in-the-1920s/
Original link (https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/myheritage-statement-about-a-cybersecurity-incident/) was submitted earlier but ignored, presumably because of the vague title. I think it's OK to edit titles for HN where the original is needlessly opaque.
Or maybe just from the cities to the seaside....
https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/08/good-old-summertime-our-ancestors-vacations/
https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/06/new-myheritage-adds-two-factor-authentication-2fa-to-secure-your-account/