Uber has told drivers that an unauthorized party reached a company database and likely took their driver’s license numbers. The company said the breach affected roughly 50,000 drivers across several US states, and the Los Angeles Times reported that around 20,000 of them were in California.
The intrusion happened in May 2014. Uber found it in September, then changed the database’s access permissions so the same route could not be used again. Drivers heard about it only after the company went public months later.
Only names and license numbers were taken, according to Uber. The company said it had no reports of the data being misused, and it advised affected drivers to watch their credit reports for fraudulent accounts or transactions. Uber is offering those drivers free credit monitoring. A license number alone can still be used to open accounts or build a fake identity, which is why the company offered the protection.
Uber called the group “a small percentage” of its current and former drivers. The company was already dealing with regulators over whether drivers held proper licenses and insurance, and the breach showed how much sensitive paperwork the platform holds on the people who work for it.
Uber had a second, much larger breach later. A 2016 attack exposed the license details of about 600,000 US drivers, and the company waited more than a year to disclose it.
What drivers should do:
check credit reports regularly, consider a credit freeze, and report any account they did not open.
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