UK and Dutch regulators fine Uber for failing to protect its customers’ personal information during a 2016 cyber attack involving millions of users. Names, email addresses and phone numbers of 57 million Uber riders and drivers were exposed in October 2016. Instead of disclosing the breach at the time, Uber paid $100,000 in ransom to the two hackers with access to the stolen data in exchange for keeping the incident secret and deleting the information. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office fined Uber 385,000 pounds ($491,102) and $679,790.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/uber-data-breach-fine.html