
UK watchdog fines 23andMe for 'profoundly damaging' data breach
The fine comes as the DNA testing firm, which filed for bankruptcy in March, is set to be sold to a new owner.
23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. It is best known for providing a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers provide a saliva sample that is laboratory analysed, using single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, to generate reports relating to the customer's ancestry and genetic predispositions to health-related topics. The company's name is derived from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a diploid human cell.
The fine comes as the DNA testing firm, which filed for bankruptcy in March, is set to be sold to a new owner.
The genetic testing company 23andMe is being fined £2.31m by the UK's privacy watchdog over their 2023 data breach that saw the..