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Uber to pay $148 million to settle 2016 data breach (The Washington Post)

September 27, 2018

Human cloud, ride-sharing firm Uber agreed to pay $148 million to settle allegations it violated data-breach laws when it waited a year to disclose a hack affecting tens of millions of its riders and drivers, The Washington Post reported. The settlement is among the biggest in Uber’s history and is the largest multistate penalty ever levied by state authorities for a data breach. The hack in October 2016 exposed the names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers related to accounts of 57 million riders and drivers globally. It also included the license numbers of approximately 600,000 drivers in the US.