Privacy Regulators Probe Impact of 23andMe’s Mega-Breach

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Privacy regulators in the U.K. and Canada have launched a joint investigation into 23andMe following the direct-to-consumer genetic testing service suffering a massive data breach in October 2023.

Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, said they’ll jointly investigate the publicly traded company’s compliance with their respective data protection laws and the impact of the breach, which exposed ancestry information for 6.9 million individuals.

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