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In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company confirmed that the attack took place Oct. 1. 23andMe noted that the "threat actor" was able to access accounts of users who had ...
Around a year ago, 23andMe had a data breach that led to 6.9 million profiles being accessible. Now, the company has agreed to pay a $30 million settlement after a class-action lawsuit was brought ...
23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. [1] It is best known for providing a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers provide a saliva sample that is laboratory analysed, using single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, [2] to generate reports relating to the customer's ancestry and genetic ...
In October 2023, Wired reported that a sample of data points from 23andMe accounts were exposed on BreachForums, a black-hat hacking crime forum. [1]23andMe confirmed to TechCrunch that because of an opt-in feature that allows DNA-related relatives to contact each other, the true number of people exposed was 6.9 million, nearly half of 23andMe’s 14 million reported customers.
23andMe's once rising star has dimmed amid a series of setbacks, leading some users to wonder what will happen to their genetic data. 23andMe is floundering. Here is how to delete your data.
Impute.me was an open-source non-profit web application that allowed members of the public to use their data from direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests (including tests from 23andMe and Ancestry.com) to calculate polygenic risk scores (PRS) for complex diseases and cognitive and personality traits.
Whether in search of relatives, a family's country of origin, or to understand personal disease risk, 15 million people have shared their DNA with 23andMe since the genetic test site launched in 2006.
Anne E. Wojcicki (/ w uː ˈ tʃ ɪ t s k i / woo-CHITS-kee; [2] born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe.She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza.