Uber fined for failing to report cyber attack

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) fined the transport company a fine of 600 thousand euros Uber to hide a Data breaches of about 174,000 users produced after a cyber attack in 2016.

In a statement, the AP explained that Uber chose not to make public what happened and what pay $ 100,000 (88,312 euros) at the the hackers "Silently and hide" the hacking suffered, which was discovered a year later by a leak to the press.

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The application of the taxi service was attacked in 2016 worldwide and the data of a total of 57 million users pbaded into the hands of the attackers, including their names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers.

Customers and business drivers, among them 174,000 users in the Netherlandsthey were only told what happened a year later.

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The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner also fined the company today. 385,000 books (433,818 euros) for "non protection of the personal information of its customers during a cyber attack".

Uber He was sentenced in the US for the same problem and was forced to sign an agreement on 130 million euros in September as a fine.

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The General Data Protection Regulation, promoted by the European Union and enacted in 2018, provides for fines for companies that conceal data leaks without reporting them. less than 72 hours.