Truth, Lies and DNA Testing

Truth, Lies and DNA Testing

The news on March 24, 2025, that the company 23andMe had filed for bankruptcy protection so that it could sell itself sent customers scrambling to delete their DNA data. The firm’s IT system crashed, overloaded by desperate traffic. Though basic services have been restored, volume problems are ongoing. The time it takes to receive a two-factor identification code in order to log in is best measured not in seconds but on a 24-hour clock, and the …

What my DNA test told me (that I wasn’t ready to hear)

Tech editor Shaun White discovered the latest technology in genealogy tracing.

He was never like his siblings. Turns out, he was switched at birth by a NYC hospital, he says.

(NBC News) – After his niece took an over-the-counter DNA test, McMahon learned that he wasn’t actually related to his family at all. It was his sister Carol Vignola who first learned about the DNA test results and did some research before speaking to him. She found birth records at Jamaica Hospital where McMahon was born which revealed something shocking: another baby boy with the last name McMahon was born on the same day, within hours of Kevi…