{"id":884,"date":"2024-06-11T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/genetics-testing-company-23andme-investigated-over-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:07:33","slug":"genetics-testing-company-23andme-investigated-over-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/genetics-testing-company-23andme-investigated-over-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetics testing company 23andMe investigated over data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A joint investigation into a data breach at a DNA testing company has been launched by UK and Canadian watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) announced the investigation into the October 2023 incident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>US-based genetics company 23andMe analyses its customers\u2019 DNA through home saliva collection kits to provide insights on factors such as health and ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company\u2019s website, it has sold more than 12 million DNA testing kits since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and Canadian data protection regulators said they will combine their expertise and resources to jointly conduct the investigation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>It will examine the scope of information exposed by the breach and potential harms to affected people.<\/p>\n<p>The strength of 23andMe\u2019s safeguards to protect the information within its control will also be investigated, as well as whether the company provided adequate notification about the breach to the two regulators and affected people.<\/p>\n<p>The ICO said: \u201c23andMe is a custodian of highly sensitive personal information, including genetic information which does not change over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can reveal information about an individual and their family members, including about their health, ethnicity, and biological relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis makes public trust in these services essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UK information commissioner John Edwards said: \u201cPeople need to trust that any organisation handling their most sensitive personal information has the appropriate security and safeguards in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis data breach had an international impact, and we look forward to collaborating with our Canadian counterparts to ensure the personal information of people in the UK is protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Privacy commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne said: \u201cIn the wrong hands, an individual\u2019s genetic information could be misused for surveillance or discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, 23andMe said: \u201cWe intend to cooperate with these regulators\u2019 reasonable requests relating to the credential stuffing attack discovered in October 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint investigation into a data breach at a DNA testing company has been launched&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}