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 23andMe: "Oh it's everyone else's fault, it's credential stuffing."

But that's worse, right? You get how not having credential stuffing mitigations in your fucking gene registry is worse? 
 @3e3ce96c @111841bb I cannot think of worse customer data to lose than this. 
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Wait wait wait and WHAT!

7 million customer datasets breached by credential stuffing 30 million users?
This sounds off to me (actually rather like bullshit). I agree that too many people reuse passwords, but I doubt that ~25% of the users reuse passwords and their passwords are known from other breaches.

This rather sounds like credential stuffing of a privileged account. This would also explain how it was possible to target specific ethnic groups