23andMe Approved to Expunge 157,000 Suspicious Bankruptcy Claims

23andMe’s bankruptcy estate won court approval to remove about 157,000 potentially fraudulent claims for compensation from the DNA testing firm over a 2023 data breach that exposed private customer data.

Judge Brian Walsh sustained an objection made by the former 23andMe, now called Chrome Holding Co., at a hearing Friday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The claims, part of a suspected larger effort, were flagged by firm professionals for not being connected to known customers, having suspicious descriptions, or coming from suspicious domains, according to court records.

About 58,000 of them featured email addresses ...