How the hell do you, of all people, add the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic? The fact they acknowledged and defended this makes it seem like some kind of PR stunt, though a very strange one at that. Maybe this is like some soft introduction of their new anti-european rhetoric…

Well, they don’t actually sequence your genome, afaik its a SNPchip type of thing, so only some select polymorphisms, probably not much useful data, especially if the stolen data was already processed results.