23andMe credential stuffing and DNA Relatives data theft
Add to my breach checkMade public · 6,900,000 profiles
What leaked6
Hard to replace
- Other profile data
Permanent
- Health information
- Ethnicity, religion or political views
- Photos
- Full name
- Partial date of birth or age
- Health informationhealth reports
- Ethnicity, religion or political viewsrace and ethnicity
- Photosprofile images
- Full namedisplay name in DNA Relatives profiles
- Other profile datafamily trees, self-reported city or postcode-level location
- Partial date of birth or agebirth year
To-dos
None of the harms this check covers.
What happened next22 events
Disputes: 6 events
Back to latest- Settlement of USD 6 million with the California Attorney General over the 2023 breach, filed in the bankruptcy court and pending its approval
- MDL closed on a stipulated dismissal with prejudice
- Bankruptcy court approved the U.S. data breach class settlement, subject to an opt-out period for members notified late
- Settlements with state-court plaintiffs and arbitration claimants; as of March 2025, the total agreed for U.S. customer claims was 37.5 million USD
- Motion for preliminary approval of the class settlement conditionally granted
- Federal class actions consolidated as MDL No. 3098 in the Northern District of California
- Company
- 23andMe
- When it happened
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 6,900,000 profiles · approx.; about 14,000 accounts accessed directly, then about 5.5 million DNA Relatives and 1.4 million Family Tree profiles; 23andMe
Sources
- 23andMe company notice (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- UK Information Commissioner's Office regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 23andMe company notice, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 23andMe Holding Co. company filing (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- Bloomberg Law press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026