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California to recieve $6m settlement after 23andMe data breach
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The 2023 breach exposed millions of customers’ genetic and personal information, including more than 855,000 Californians California attorney general Rob Bonta on Monday announced the state will receive a $6m settlement payment in 23andMe’s bankruptcy, resolving California’s lega
The 2023 breach exposed millions of customers’ genetic and personal information, including more than 855,000 Californians California attorney general Rob Bonta on Monday announced the state will receive a $6m settlement payment in 23andMe’s bankruptcy, resolving California’s legal claims related to a 2023 data breach that exposed 6.9 million customers’ genetic and other personal information. California had unsuccessfully tried to block the $305m sale of 23andMe assets to TTAM Research Institute, a nonprofit controlled by 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki. The state had argued that the bankruptcy sale violated California’s Genetic Information Privacy Act, and it had said consumers did not give express consent to the sale.
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