23andMe proposes to compensate millions of customers affected by a data breach on the company’s platform, offering $30 million as part of the settlement, along with providing users access to a security monitoring system.
The genetic testing service will pay the amount to approximately 6.4 million American users, according to a proposed class action settlement filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Sept. 12. Personal information was exposed last year after a hacker breached the website’s security and posted critical user data for sale on the dark web.
The data could include names, sex, date of birth, genetic information, predicted relationships with genetic matches, ancestry reports, ancestors’ birth locations and family names, family tree information, and geographic locations, according to the company.
According to the settlement proposal, users will be sent a link where they can delete all information related to 23andMe. […]
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