A big data breach and deepening financial woes have sparked new concerns about the 23andMe's ability to protect the personal ...

Ancestry and genetics-testing company 23andMe has agreed to pay a $30 million settlement after a class-action lawsuit was ...

After a data breach exposed the personal information of roughly half its userbase and led to simmering distrust with the popular ancestry service, 23andMe confirmed last month that it will settle ...

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 ...

Personal data of nearly half of the popular genetic testing company's customers -- 6.9 million people -- was exposed in the data breach.

Eventually, about 15 million people signed up for it. Sixteen years later and after a large data breach in 2023, the value of 23andMe has plummeted. That has prompted concerns that the company ...

Requesting deletion closes your account permanently and prevents your data from being used in further research (existing ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

A data breach notification filing in January said it took 23andMe five months to realize hackers had stolen the data. The incident led to a class action lawsuit, which 23andMe settled this ...

Americans curious about their ancestry likely paid for a DNA test through 23andMe. 23andMe is on the brink of a financial collapse. The company – founded in 2006 – is now considered ...

The settlement provides for three main types of compensation, with a maximum payout of up to $10,000 for specific claims ...