No, the company in question made promises about the security of it and has broken those promises. Now their customer's DNA is potentially available to anyone (not just governments). They should pay dearly for breaking these promises. This is not the point of my original comment.

The person I'm responding to is victim-blaming, and also making the completely silly claim that it's irresponsible to willingly "leak" DNA through some vague lens that it's going to be used to harm your descendants for generations.

DNA sequencing is constantly becoming more affordable and accessible. Unless regulated, this will be data that gets collected and abused en-masse. It's a little expensive now, but I could easily sequence just about anyone's DNA today as long as I have some sort of physical access to a space they use. If that's the commenters concern, they'd be much better off focusing on that rather than blaming people for expecting a company to keep medical data secure.

There is no practical way to prevent it, so yes, it's OK because there is no reasonable alternative.

If the government is providing healthcare, as it does in many countries, then they have it already.

Yes. What's the problem?