A class action lawsuit has been filed in federal court in San Francisco against 23andMe, a genetics information and testing company headquartered in South San Francisco.

The suit broadly challenges 23andMe’s response to hackers who accessed sensitive information of as many as 7 million customers beginning in April 2023. According to the complaint, 23andMe learned, but did not disclose in a timely way, that the hackers had targeted people of Ashkenazi Jewish and Chinese heritages.  

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.