23andMe Bankruptcy Plan Prompts Objection From 30,000 Claimants

More than 30,000 claimants who opted out of a class action settlement over 23andMe’s 2023 data breach objected to the company’s solicitation procedures for its proposed Chapter 11 plan, saying the deal terms are no longer equitable.

The settlement reached earlier this year with US customers whose data was exposed in a privacy incident omits individual arbitration claimants, the group argued in a Sept. 12 filing in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The breach impacted nearly 7 million customers.

The claimants opposed the disclosure statement, plan, and voting procedures, saying the bankrupt DNA testing firm ...