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Delaware Privacy Enforcement Cases

3 approved, official-source case records from the 50-state register. Dates, amounts, legal context and disposition qualifications are supported by the cited evidence.

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Each record cites an official Attorney General or state-agency source. Shared multistate amounts should not be summed as unique state penalties. Additional verification sources are identified when an amount has been reconciled.

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23andMe

Date
2026-07-14
Amount
$150 million in allowed claims for states; recovery limited to $18 million; Delaware will receive $159,654; separate $46.75 million class-action settlement for affected U.S. consumers
Legal basis
Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act

Why the action was brought

23andMe’s 2023 credential-stuffing breach compromised genetic data of 6.9 million customers worldwide, including 16,479 Delawareans; some genetic ancestry information was exposed and subsets were published for sale on the dark web. Investigators alleged unreasonable security practices, including inadequate safeguards, rate limiting, logging, monitoring, investigation of unusual logins, vulnerability remediation, and design testing.

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Marriott International, Inc.

Date
2024-10-10
Amount
$52 million payment to states; Delaware will receive nearly $400 thousand
Legal basis
State consumer protection laws, personal information protection laws, and, where applicable, breach notification laws

Why the action was brought

Marriott’s guest reservation database was compromised from July 2014 through September 2018, with intruders undetected and 131.5 million records breached. Records included contact information, birth dates, reservation details, hotel-stay preferences, limited unencrypted passport numbers, and unexpired payment-card information. Attorneys General alleged Marriott failed to implement reasonable security and remediate deficiencies.

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Blackbaud

Date
2023-10-12
Amount
$49.5 million; Delaware will receive $380,662
Legal basis
state consumer protection laws, breach notification laws, and HIPAA

Why the action was brought

Blackbaud customers’ constituent data included contact and demographic information, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial, employment and wealth information, donation history, and protected health information. Blackbaud allegedly failed to implement reasonable security and remediate known gaps, enabling unauthorized network access, then provided untimely, incomplete, or inaccurate breach information, significantly delaying or preventing consumer notification.

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This register contains approved, official-source privacy, data-breach and data-security enforcement records. Read any case-specific court-approval qualification; inclusion does not confirm payment or final judgment. Shared multistate amounts should not be summed as unique state penalties.

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Original case-library snapshot: August 23, 2026. Original state-law research cutoff: August 25, 2026. Monetary-library update: September 16, 2026, not a new full 50-state research cutoff. Targeted Indiana and New Hampshire law review: October 19, 2026 only. Source inclusion does not independently confirm final court entry or payment.