23andMe AND ITS SUCCESSOR SUED OVER 2023 DATA BREACH
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Thursday that he will sue DNA testing firm Chrome Holding, alleging that its predecessor company, 23andMe, failed to safeguard sensitive customer data. According to Bonta, this security failure led to a 2023 data breach that exposed the genetic predispositions, health risk factors, ancestry, and biological relative information of nearly seven million users. The Attorney General stated that the company failed to implement basic security measures and subsequently lied to consumers about the severity of the hack.



