23andMe data breach overview:
Who: Plaintiff Alyson Hu filed a class action lawsuit against 23andMe Inc.
Why: 23andMe allegedly failed to take adequate cybersecurity measures to protect customers’ sensitive information from cybercriminals, resulting in a data breach that may have affected nearly 7 million individuals.
Where: The 23andMe class action lawsuit was filed in Illinois federal court.
Genetic testing company 23andMe Inc. faces another class action lawsuit following an Oct. 6 data breach.
Unauthorized actors reportedly accessed 23andMe accounts, including millions of customers’ sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (PII), such as their names, usernames, regional locations, birth years, profile pictures and ethnicities.
Plaintiff Alyson Hu, a 23andMe customer, filed the 23andMe data breach class action lawsuit Dec. 26. She previously received notice her PII had been compromised.
“Since the [23andMe data breach] occurred, several news sources have reported that threat actors listed mass amounts of the stolen data for sale on the dark web,” Hu alleges. “Defendant has failed to address these reports, failed to inform victims when and how the data breach occurred and has even failed to say whether the security threat is still a risk to customers.”
Plaintiff argues adequate cybersecurity measures could have prevented 23andMe data breach
You can find the rest of the article in an article by Anne Bucher published in the topclassactions web site at: http://tinyurl.com/595ux7wt.