The hackers broke into this first set of victims by brute-forcing accounts with passwords that were known to be associated with the targeted customers, a technique known as credential stuffing. From these 14,000 initial victims, however, the hackers were able to then access the personal data of the other 6.9 million million victims because they had opted-in to 23andMe’s DNA Relatives feature.

From the description it sounds like they have a point. If people reuse their passwords and then get hacked, the hackers are going to have access to their full accounts, including any information shared with them.

How is this different than if hackers reused passwords and hacked into Facebook accounts and then saw the user’s friends’ profiles?

In that case, this seems like a learning opportunity for you.

Western European countries have rule of law and don’t disappear or mulch people when they break the law, letting them retain their rights.

This counterexample would seem to completely undermine your claim that America’s incredibly high incarceration rates are just “what happens” when citizens retain rights after breaking the law.

That’s what happens when citizens break the law and retain their rights in the eyes of the state

Is it? Why don’t European countries have a similarly high incarceration rate then?