Comment Re:They can't place blame on peoples bad habbits? (Score 1) 95
Well, "use secure and unique passwords" is not really the full story, it's "use secure and unique passwords for accounts which you care about". Specifically, when the cost (small, but definitely existent) of managing more strong passwords is less than the risk (impact times probability) of breach. Which means that some users who do not actually care if their genetic information were to become exposed for anyone to look at will have no good reason not to just use a standard password they use for every account they don't care about.
The secondary victims here are victims because they chose an option which elected to trust a group of people, within which at least one was a password re-user. They shouldn't really have done this if they cared about their data leaking, since it's unlikely that a decent sized group of people will all be worthy of such trust. Although since this is a rather unusual situation which you can't expect users to immediately appreciate the risks of, activating this feature should have had some warning attached. That seems the most sound basis for criticising 23andme in this case.