California AG's lawsuit digs into 23andMe, including claim of $400,000 ransom paid in 2023 data breach

Me paid $400,000 ransom tied to the 2023 breach of customer data, a lawsuit claims. Now the company in its place wants to ...
ZDNet

A drug developer is buying 23andMe - what does that mean for your DNA data?

Following a data breach and bankruptcy, genetic testing service 23andMe will soon be in different hands. On Monday, biotechnology company Regeneron announced that it won the top bid in a bankruptcy ...
Reuters

Regeneron to buy bankrupt 23andMe, vows ethical use of customer DNA data

A 2023 data breach hurt demand for 23andMe's core services Transaction is expected to complete in the third quarter May 19 (Reuters) - (Corrects to say the company filed for bankruptcy in March, not ...
TechCrunch

23andMe data theft prompts DNA testing companies to switch on 2FA by default

DNA testing and genealogy companies are stepping up user account security by mandating the use of two-factor authentication, following the theft of millions of user records from DNA genetic testing ...
Los Angeles Times

23andMe sells gene-testing business to DNA drug maker Regeneron

Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the drug developer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256 million. The ...
Law

Your DNA Is Not a Product: Why the 23andMe Collapse Should Alarm Everyone

Angela Giampolo of Giampolo Law Group in Philadelphia. When Blackstone Group acquired a majority stake in Ancestry.com for $4.7 billion in 2020, headlines focused on consumer tech. But behind the ...
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23andMe is out of bankruptcy. You should still delete your DNA.

Nearly 2 million people protected their privacy by deleting their DNA from 23andMe after it declared bankruptcy in March. Now it’s back with the same person in charge — and I still don’t trust it. Nor ...
NPR

Judge OKs sale of 23andMe — and its trove of DNA data — to a nonprofit led by its founder

A bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of the insolvent genetics firm 23andMe to a nonprofit run by one of the company's co-founders. The deal effectively avoids the controversial transfer of DNA ...
NPR

The legal battle over the fate of 23andMe's DNA data has taken a new twist

Genetic testing company 23andMe never hit on a sustainable business model and went bankrupt. Now, it's being sold to a non-profit launched by the co-founder, delaying addressing data privacy concerns.

Whistleblower claims CIA used DNA data from Ancestry and 23andMe customers in search for aliens

Apparently, the government isn’t disclosing everything it knows about UFOs. A whistleblower has accused the CIA of attempting ...
Futurism

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data

Your DNA results are in — and they’re 100 percent the property of a pharmaceutical manufacturer. Put simply, the genetic information of millions is now in the hands of a drugmaker seeking to mine it ...