Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out
First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used …
A warrant granted in Florida this July let a detective override GEDmatch's privacy rules to search a database of 1.2M users; experts say it may set a precedent
New York Times :
Profile of GEDmatch, a genealogy website that has helped crack more than a dozen cold cases after it was used to uncover the identity of the Golden State Killer
Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website. Tweets: @nytscience and @nytimes Tweets: @nytscience : One man is 80. The other is 67. They didn't...
Parabon NanoLabs says it has loaded DNA data from ~100 crime scenes to genealogy database GEDmatch and has found matches to suspect's relatives in ~20 cases
Peter Aldhous / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @carnage4life Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Amazing that greatest unintended consequence of services like Ancestry and 23AndMe is that DNA from rape kits ...
Suspected Golden State Killer caught after investigators matched DNA from the crime scenes to genetic data available on free genealogy site GEDmatch
“No court order was needed to access that site's large database of genetic blueprints.” — To get a leg up in the investigation in the cold case of the …
Suspected Golden State Killer caught by searching open source genealogy website GEDmatch for the genetic profile of the DNA from crime scenes
“No court order was needed to access that site's large database of genetic blueprints.” — To get a leg up in the investigation in the cold case of the …