Jonathan Stempel reports:
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 customers whose personal information was exposed in a data breach last year.
The accord also resolves accusations that 23andMe did not tell customers with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry that the hacker appeared to have specifically targeted them, and posted their information for sale on the dark web.
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The case is In re 23andMe Inc Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 24-md-03098.
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