Late final year, Uber unveiled that the companionship had suffered a massive information breach inwards Oct 2016, exposing names, e-mail addresses together with telephone numbers of 57 1000000 Uber riders together with drivers along amongst driving license numbers of roughly 600,000 drivers.
Besides this, it was every 2d good reported that instead of disclosing the breach at the time, the companionship paid $100,000 inwards ransom to the 2 hackers amongst access to the stolen information inwards telephone substitution for keeping the incident undercover together with deleting the information.
Today Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fine of £500,000 on Facebook for allowing political consultancy theatre Cambridge Analytica to get together together with misuse information of 87 1000000 users improperly.
In September, the ICO every 2d good issued the maximum allowed fine of £500,000 on credit reporting agency Equifax for its final year's massive information breach that exposed personal together with fiscal information of hundreds of millions of its customers.
