Uber will pay $148M to US states to settle claims from 2016 breach
by Cyrus Farivar from Ars Technica - All content on (#3ZKP7)
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California authorities announced Wednesday morning that Uber has agreed to pay $148 million to settle legal claims surrounding its 2016 massive data breach and subsequent coverup.
The breach-where 57 million customers' and drivers' names, email addresses, and phone numbers were compromised-wasn't disclosed until November 2017.
As Ars reported previously, Uber paid hackers $100,000 to delete the data they had taken and not publicize the breach. At the time of the breach, Uber was negotiating with federal regulators over different privacy concerns.
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