[searine]

If you were smart enough to hack 23andMe to get genetic data to find a specific person, you'd be smart enough to reconstruct identities from publicly available data. You'd just have to cross-reference public anonymous databases with public non-anonymous ones. Both of which exist, and are free.

So far, the only real use-case for doing this is people trying to identify criminals from just DNA.

[slingnow]

You realize this data is often available for purchase or eventually publicly leaked, right? You don't have to be "smart enough" to do the hacking to benefit from it.