Uber Agrees to Pay $148 Million to States Over Major 2016 Data Breach
The settlement is the result of a multistate investigation that found Uber paid hackers $100,000 to conceal the breach, which exposed the names, email addresses, and cellphone numbers of those users.
September 26, 2018 at 02:16 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
Uber has agreed to pay a record $148 million penalty to settle allegations that it intentionally concealed a major data breach in 2016 that exposed the personal information of 57 million people, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood's office said Wednesday.
The settlement comes in the wake of a multistate investigation that found the ride-hailing company paid hackers $100,000 to conceal the breach, which exposed the names, email addresses, and cellphone numbers of those users.
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