The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced an expanded settlement with Uber to address the data breach disclosed by the ride-hailing giant in November, and took the opportunity to urge tech companies to lock down their software development environments.

The new FTC consent order comes after Uber agreed in August to submit to regular audits of its privacy protocols to resolve FTC allegations the company failed to properly safeguard sensitive data. Those allegations had to do with a 2014 data breach that resulted from unsecured data stored on an Amazon Web Services S3 cloud server.

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