California Attorney General sues 23andMe successor for 2023 data breach
The California Attorney General will sue DNA testing firm Chrome Holding, alleging its predecessor company 23andMe failed to protect sensitive customer data.
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Business | California attorney general sues 23andMe for data breach by Caroline Petrow-Cohen
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The California attorney general sued the company formerly known as 23andMe on Thursday, accusing it of failing to protect customers’ data after a 2023 breach that exposed raw genetic information and health reports for nearly 7 million people—including more than 850,000 Californians—and of subsequently misleading consumers about the breach’s severity; hackers accessed the data via credential‑stuffing attacks and listed it for sale on the dark web, a breach that went undetected for five months, while the company, which filed for bankruptcy in 2025, was later sold to the nonprofit TTAM Research Institute led by former CEO Anne Wojcicki, prompting further legal challenges over the sale of the genetic data.
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