23andMe faces a $30 million settlement due to a data breach that exposed 6.9 million customers' personal information, impacting Ashkenazi Jewish and Chinese ancestry users.
The company described the settlement as 'fair, adequate, and reasonable' after a five-month-long breach affecting at least half of its customer database.
Affected users may claim between $100 and $10,000, based on case specifics, with certain states having stricter genetic privacy law claims of only $100.
The breach, which began in April 2023 and persisted for about five months, raised significant concerns about the security of genetic data.
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