[HN Gopher] DNA testing company vanishes along with its customer...
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       DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data
        
       Author : nickcotter
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2024-11-18 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.malwarebytes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.malwarebytes.com)
        
       | alsetmusic wrote:
       | This sort of thing was only a matter of time. The clock is also
       | ticking on 23andMe going bankrupt and selling their assets (your
       | PII) to stay afloat.
       | 
       | https://hoodline.com/2024/11/23andme-in-turmoil-stock-plunge...
        
         | akira2501 wrote:
         | > This sort of thing was only a matter of time.
         | 
         | In the current single vendor model. An intermediary could
         | accept the samples, blind identities, then provide a "one time"
         | mechanism for retrieving results.
         | 
         | Bill Burr's take was pretty good. "What.. I'm going to spit in
         | a tube and mail it into the internet?"
        
       | pvaldes wrote:
       | If is a Russian company is no mystery what happened. Sanctions
       | hit the company, closing it.
        
       | ginkgotree wrote:
       | Saw this coming years ago. 23andme is next.
        
         | yeetusus wrote:
         | tfw all your immediate relatives did the test even after you
         | explicitly told them not to
        
       | neuronexmachina wrote:
       | For reference, the company is Atlas Biomed. I remember seeing
       | their product show up all the time on Amazon (they have a box
       | design that looks kind of like a multicolored QR code).
        
       | gnabgib wrote:
       | Original source (11 points, 9 days ago)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42096208
        
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