23andMe Proposes $30 Million Payment for Data Breach

Published on September 16, 2024

23andMe proposes to compensate millions of customers affected by a data breach on the company’s platform, and pay $30 million as part of the settlement along with providing users access to a security monitoring system. The genetic testing service will pay the amount to approximately 6.4 million American users of the platform, according to a proposed class action settlement filed in a federal court for the Northern District of California on Sept. 12. Personal information regarding customers was exposed last year after a hacker breached the website’s security, and posted critical user data for sale on the dark web. The data could include name, sex, date of birth, genetic information, predicted relationships with genetic matches, ancestry reports, ancestors’ birth locations and family names, family tree information, and geographic location, said the company....

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