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That's a bit different than giving the DNA + cost of sequencing + full identifying info, all signed sealed and delivered, wrapped up in a bow with fully authorized permission to monetize for whatever purpose and share with whomever asks. If someone else is going to the trouble of finding my location, stealing a sample, getting it sequenced, and correlating the data, then I suppose they earned the database record the hard way, didn't they!

I feel this is a straw man. The risk profile posed by this leak is not the same as someone going around and collecting people's DNA off the street. The leaked database is a highly concentrated artifact, complete with likely-correct PII across a million people.

If people were regularly surreptitiously collecting DNA samples from "the wild" at similar scale, this would be a different conversation.

How much of that shedded DNA is being sequenced and catalogued in an internationally available online database?