Genetic analysis company 23andMe (ME) announced this week it's declaring bankruptcy and pursuing a sale, leading many customers to pursue deleting their data from the company. 23andMe was founded in ...

Tens of thousands of Californians have already signed up for the state's new tool to try and stop their data from being sold by brokers, officials say.

Attorney General William Tong Monday issued a consumer alert outlining how customers could delete data following the bankruptcy filing for 23andMe. 23andMe is a direct-to-consumer genetic testing ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- DNA genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and will eventually have to sell its assets to pay its creditors. If you are one of the over 15 million people who have ...

THE GENETIC TESTING COMPANY 23 AND ME. IT HAS ARGUABLY FAILED TO BOUNCE BACK FROM A CYBERATTACK THAT SAW ITS CUSTOMERS PERSONAL INFORMATION AND GENETIC DATA COMPROMISED. THE COMPANY COLLECTED DATA ...

23andMe, a genetic-testing and ancestry-tracing company, collects the most personal kind of data from its customers: their DNA. Now, after a data breach in late 2023 and a full board resignation, the ...

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On March 23, 2025, genetic testing company 23andMe announced it filed for bankruptcy — sparking a firestorm of articles and online posts advising consumers to delete their personal data in order to ...

23andMe has capped off a challenging few years by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. Given the uncertainty around the future of the DNA testing company and what will happen to all of the genetic ...