SAN FRANCISCO — A federal magistrate dismissed a suit against Uber Technologies Inc. by drivers alleging they were harmed by its handling of a data breach last year. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the plaintiffs hadn’t shown they were injured by the unauthorized accessing of files that included driver names and license numbers.
“Without a hack of information such as Social Security numbers, account numbers, or credit card numbers, there is no obvious, credible risk of identity theft that risks real, immediate injury,” Beeler wrote. But she gave named plaintiff Sasha Antman a chance to amend the complaint. Antman’s counsel, Theodore Maya of Ahdoot & Wolfson, said he and his client plan on taking that option. “We continue to believe that Uber failed to adequately safeguard its drivers’ personal information,” Maya said Monday.
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