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23andMe
- Date
- 2026-07-16
- Amount
- $276,435 to Oklahoma; $150 million in total claims, with actual payouts limited to $18 million because of limited bankruptcy-estate funds; separately, $46.75 million to settle a related class-action lawsuit
- Legal basis
- No statutes or laws cited in the document.
Why the action was brought
23andMe’s 2023 breach exposed genetic and personal data, including genetic ancestry information, of 6.9 million customers, including more than 78,000 Oklahomans; subsets were published for sale on the dark web. Investigators found failures to check passwords against known-stolen lists, require extra verification, monitor suspicious logins, and fix known security weaknesses.