The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said that the personal details of about 2.7 million U.K. customers — including email addresses and phone numbers — may have been downloaded during a 2016 hack. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Uber Technologies Inc., which is already facing a range of legal and regulatory headaches in London, got another one Tuesday after it was fined 385,000 pounds ($491,000) over a cyber attack that compromised the data of millions of customers and tens of thousands of drivers.
The Information Commissioner's Office said that the personal details of about 2.7 million U.K. customers — including email addresses and phone numbers — may have been downloaded during a 2016 hack. Clients weren't told for more than a year and the company paid the hackers $100,000 to destroy the data. In addition, information about 82,000 drivers was exposed.
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