My friend, Pam, had her Instagram Account “hacked” and announced that to the world in a public post on Facebook. She meant to warn her friends, of course. Truth be told, Pam had not actually been hacked, as her password would (probably) have been changed if she were truly hacked. ...
If you aren’t aware of this shared match limitation, and that a majority of your shared matches are actually below 20 cM, you may interpret shared match results to mean you actually DON’T share specific matches with that other person. That isn’t necessarily true, as we saw above with ...
Fifth, while GEDmatch is not the first company, nor the first genealogy company to suffer a breach, this is more serious because data was actually exposed to people who were not supposed to see it, not just hacked from behind. Most hackers try to cover their tracks so companies don’t k...