23andMe Bankruptcy Bid Deadline Extended as DNA Privacy Woes Linger April 29, 2025 By Steven Church The sale of the bankrupt DNA data bank 23andMe is facing delays as the company tries to find a lead...
FTC Concerned About Privacy Protections in 23andMe Bankruptcy March 31, 2025 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the potential sale or transfer of Americans’ personal information by 23andMe ancestry...
23andMe’s Bankruptcy Puts 15 Million Users’ DNA Info on Auction Block March 25, 2025 By Jonathan Randles Millions of Americans who sent their saliva to 23andMe in the hopes of finding lost relatives or identifying health risks...
23andMe Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $30 Million September 16, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel 23andMe will pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing...
23andMe Says Health Data Was Included in Hack That Compromised 6.9 Million Users December 5, 2023 By Kristen V. Brown Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for...
23andMe Faces Class Action Lawsuit Following Data Breach October 11, 2023 By Chad Hemenway In a move that has come to be expected following most cyberattacks, two victims of the recent 23andMe data breach...
Hacker Puts 23andMe User Data Up for Sale on the Internet October 10, 2023 By Margi Murphy An anonymous hacker is claiming to be selling “millions” of genetic profiles cobbled together from hijacked 23andMe customer accounts. The...
Personal Genetic Tests Now Subject to Sharper Scrutiny After 23andMe Episode December 12, 2013 By Anna Edney and John Lauerman The genetic test firm 23andMe Inc.’s clash with U.S. regulators over the direct sale of its gene analysis service to...
FDA Halts Google-Backed 23andMe’s Sales of DNA Test Kit November 26, 2013 By Sharon Begley and Toni Clarke The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned 23andMe, a company backed by Google Inc., to halt sales of its...