{"id":1809,"date":"2024-07-16T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/breaking-genetic-testing-firm-23andme-settles-data-breach-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T23:00:40","slug":"breaking-genetic-testing-firm-23andme-settles-data-breach-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/breaking-genetic-testing-firm-23andme-settles-data-breach-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Genetic Testing Firm 23andMe Settles Data Breach Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>23andMe has reached a settlement in principle of class actions brought over last year\u2019s data breach, lawyers disclosed at a Tuesday court hearing in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The amount and details of the settlement weren\u2019t disclosed, but, in its annual report this year, 23andMe revealed it had $216 million in cash. At a hearing last month, lawyers said 23andMe class members, some of whom had potentially $3 billion in damages owed under the Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act, were likely to get a \u201csteep discount\u201d in monetary relief, with injunctive relief possible, such as dark web monitoring.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23andMe has reached a settlement in principle of class actions brought over last year\u2019s data breach, lawyers disclosed at a Tuesday court hearing in San Francisco. The amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[291,293,2532,292,184,2533,317,322,2534],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-23andme","tag-breach","tag-breaking","tag-data","tag-firm","tag-genetic","tag-lawsuits","tag-settles","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}