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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 ...
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.
The 23andMe data leak was a data breach at personal genomics company 23andMe reported in October 2023. The cyberattack gathered profile and ethnicity information from millions of users. The affected customers were reported as primarily Ashkenazi Jews but also including hundreds of thousands of ethnically Chinese users. [1]
23andMe, a genetic-testing and ancestry-tracing company, collects the most personal kind of data from its customers: their DNA. Now, after a data breach in late 2023 and a full board resignation ...
A data breach notification filing in January 2024 said it took 23andMe five months to realize the data had been accessed. The incident led to a class action lawsuit, which 23andMe settled for $30 ...
Last year, 23andMe Holding Co. (NASDAQ:ME) said the company learned that a threat actor accessed several individual 23andMe.com accounts through credential stuffing. The company said the hacker ...
(Reuters) - 23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million ...
Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, [8] [9] into a Jewish family, [10] and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri.His mother is a dermatologist, and his father was a real estate broker.