Uber Hit with Yet Another Class Action Over 2016 Data Breach

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Proposed class action lawsuits continue to roll in against Uber over the company’s concealment of an October 2016 data breach that saw the personal information of roughly 57 million customers compromised by hackers. The plaintiff seeks injunctive relief, as well as monetary damages, against the ride-sharing company for its alleged failure to properly safeguard customers’ data, as well as its efforts to keep the data breach out of public view.

“Rather than comply with its lawful obligation to disclose the breach to regulators and the public, Uber paid the hackers behind the breach $100,000 in exchange for the criminals’ silence and assurance that they would delete the data,” the case reads, noting more than a year went by before customers were finally informed of the incident.