Bankruptcy admin approves settlement fund of $47 million for 23andMe data breach victims

2026-06-13T08:51:51Z20e1dbed58fe02d76a10ddff987ec2a61e174f5eeb999ad105dd68523a24c1e3
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Collection of cybersecurity and privacy news: A bankruptcy administrator approved a $47 million settlement fund for roughly 7 million 23andMe customers whose data were stolen beginning April 2023 and partly posted on the dark web. U.S. surveillance authority Section 702 of FISA is at risk of lapsing after legislative deadlock — the first such lapse since 2008. South Korea’s regulator fined Coupang a record ₩(?) $409 million for a personal data breach, surpassing an earlier SK Telecom penalty. The Senate Armed Services Committee declined to create a standalone U.S. “Cyber Force” in its fiscal ‑

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