23andMe will pay $18M to settle claims over massive data breach
cybernews.com
Genetic testing company 23andMe and a coalition of 43 Attorneys General have agreed to settle a lawsuit over data security failures, leading to a massive data breach in October 2023.

23andMe agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million users.

And that is before the lawyers take most of it. Basically zero consequences for breach of DNA sequences, health reports, ethnicity, race, location, etc. Fascists surely won’t use this for anything horrific.

  • gibmiser@lemmy.world
    101·
    3 days ago

    I didn’t want to do it, but my wife and parents thought I was being over worried and not fun. and then they bought me a kit even knowing I had reservations. Eventually I gave in and did it just to get the kit off the kitchen table and get them to leave me alone.

    Welp.