DNA testing firm 23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit after the company suffered a massive data breach last year that leaked the personal information of 6.9 million customers.
According to the lawsuit, the company also failed to tell customers that hackers specifically targeted people with Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry and sold the info on the dark web.
The preliminary settlement, filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court, must still be approved by a judge. In addition to cash payments to customers’ whose data was compromised, the company will also pay for three years of security monitoring.
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