ARTICLE · 02 JANUARY 2019

A Case Study In Data Breaches - Uber's Data Security Breach Fines Reach USD 150 Million

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Note that the General Data Protection Regulation numbered 2016/679 of the European Parliament was not in effect at the time of the breach.

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Introduction

Uber, the ridesharing giant, admitted that a "data security incident" in 2016 resulted in unauthorised access to the personal information of some 57 million UBER customers and drivers worldwide¹.

Such personal data consisted of the names and contact information of approximately 2.7 million Uber customers and 82,000 Uber drivers (including their journey details, weekly pay and for some, their driver's licence numbers) in the United Kingdom according to the Information Commissioner's Office of the United Kingdom (the "ICO")²) and 174,000 Dutch citizens according to the Data Protection Authority of Netherlands (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) (the "Dutch DPA")³.

The Data Security Breach

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