Securing your data with Sync involves creating a unique password, which plays a crucial role in encrypting your data for complete privacy. This encryption is end-to-end: your data is encrypted before it ever leaves your browser and can only be decrypted by another instance of Firefox. Once your data reaches a Mozilla-operated server for storage, it's already in an encrypted state, ensuring that not even Mozilla can access or decrypt this information.
Personally I use ungoogled chromium when I need a chromium browser, but I can't recommend it for non-technical users without an auto-updater. I'm not familiar enough with Brave to compare
The hackers initially got access to around 14,000 accounts using previously compromised login credentials, but they then used a feature of 23andMe to gain access to almost half of the company's user base, or about 7 million accounts
Is there more to the breach than just stolen passwords? What feature did they use and what access did they gain?
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