Menu

23andMe Sued by California Over Massive 2023 Data Breach
📰
0

23andMe Sued by California Over Massive 2023 Data Breach

CNET·Steven Musil·3 days ago
#ZvA1fUGW
#cnet#23andme#company#million#testing#article
Reading 0:00
15s threshold

California's attorney general is suing the consumer genetics testing company formerly known as 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect customers' sensitive personal information in a massive 2023 data breach that exposed the ancestry and genetic data of nearly 7 million people. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit on Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court against Chrome Holding Co., formerly known as 23andMe, accusing the company of failing to properly investigate or respond to numerous warnings that its systems had been compromised. The company's mail-in self-testing kits became synonymous with  DNA testing  before it filed for bankruptcy in 2025. In 2023, cybercriminals breached 23andMe's systems by using a " credential-stuffing attack ," which involves bombarding online accounts with huge sets of user names and passwords stolen in previous unrelated attacks. Over a period of months, the intruders were able to make off with the personal data of more than 6.9 million people.…

Continue reading — create a free account

Join HashtagPLUS to read full articles, follow hashtags, vote, and join the conversation.

Read More