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| Data protection regulator the Information Commissioner's Office has said that it has “huge concerns” relating to Uber’s cover-up of a massive data breach that came to light this week. | Data protection regulator the Information Commissioner's Office has said that it has “huge concerns” relating to Uber’s cover-up of a massive data breach that came to light this week. |
| Uber admitted on Tuesday that it had failed to disclose a cyberattack that exposed the data of some 57 million combined drivers and passengers — and paid hackers to not release the stolen data. | |
| In a statement posted online, Uber chief exectuive Dara Khosrowshahi said that an October 2016 attack encompassed personal information like names and phone numbers of Uber users worldwide. | |
| On Wednesday, the Information Commissioner’s Office said that Uber’s admission “raises huge concerns around its data protection policies and ethics”. | |
| "It's always the company's responsibility to identify when UK citizens have been affected as part of a data breach and take steps to reduce any harm to consumers. If UK citizens were affected then we should have been notified so that we could assess and verify the impact on people whose data was exposed,” said James Dipple-Johnstone, deputy commissioner of the ICO. | |
| He said that the ICO would be working with the National Cyber Security Centre and other relevant authorities in the UK and overseas to determine the scale of the breach, and the extent to which it has affected people in the UK. | |
| He also said that the ICO and other agencies would determine what steps need to be taken by Uber to ensure it fully complies with its data protection obligations. | |
| "Deliberately concealing breaches from regulators and citizens could attract higher fines for companies," said Mr Dipple-Johnstone. | |
| Concerns about corporate cybersecurity have intensified in the wake of high-profile hacks targeting companies like Yahoo — which disclosed this year that all three billion of its email users' accounts were hacked in 2013 — and credit reporting agency Equifax, whose former CEO was grilled before Congress about security weaknesses that facilitated the attack. | |
| According to Bloomberg, the Uber hack cost Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and an associate their jobs because they sought to keep it quiet. | |
| Alex Neill, managing director of home products and services at consumer’s association Which?, said that data breaches are becoming increasingly common and the protections for consumers are lagging behind. | |
| “The UK Government should use the Data Protection Bill to give independent bodies the power to seek collective redress on behalf of affected customers when a company has failed to take sufficient action following a data breach,” he said. |