23andMe, Canadian Data Breach Plaintiffs Agree to Class Claim

DNA testing company 23andMe and Canadian plaintiffs who sued over a data breach reached a deal to allow a class proof of claim in the firm’s bankruptcy.

23andMe reached an “agreement in principle” with the plaintiffs’ attorneys, according to a notice filed on Monday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and the settlement is subject to court approval.

The plaintiffs, identified in court documents as J.R. and M.M., sued 23andMe in 2023 in the Supreme Court of British Columbia over a data breach in which a hacker accessed ...