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2024 — A Year in Cyber Disasters

Passwords Are Dead, and So Is Your Privacy

Yash Bansal
4 min readDec 27, 2024

Almost 2 months ago, I wrote an article covering “How some Chinese hackers got access to US telecom due to a certain 30 year old law”. I received a lot of praise about the article, so I thought why not keep the ball rolling and dig into all the leaks and hacks which happened this year, as the last article of this year. Maybe!!!

In case you’re interested in the previous article,

2024 is(or probably was) the year data breaches took the center stage like a karaoke singer — except instead of singing some melodies, our privacy went for a toss. I am covering many fiascos that made me question the actual genetic testing of security. I am a developer myself (LinkedIn) and am appalled with so many leaks which happened in the last year, some of them being really really stupid in nature.

23andMe: Blame Yourself, Dear User

When 23andMe lost the genetic secrets of nearly 7 million customers, they knew just who to blame: you, the customer. That’s right, apparently your weak password is the real villain here, definitely not the hackers who brute-forced their way into accounts like kids raiding a cookie jar.

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Yash Bansal
Yash Bansal

Written by Yash Bansal

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