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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 ...
(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 ...
A law firm representing around 5,000 customers of genetic testing company 23andMe has raised objections to a proposed $30 million class action settlement, arguing the settlement is intentionally ...
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.
The company faced a class-action lawsuit claiming it failed to protect users' information and that it failed to notify affected accounts after the 2023 data breach.
23andMe says the personal data it collects includes registration information like birth date, genetic information like a user's genotype, sample information like saliva, and self-reported information.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
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 ...