Data Breach Case Abstract
Organization Name: Uber
The nature of the breach:
The hackers get access to the personal information of over 57 million
drivers and riders. The organization concealed the hacking for more
than one year. The hackers had stolen the personal information that
includes the license and names of the drivers of over 600000 drivers
in United states of America, the name of the riders, mobile phone
numbers and email addresses.
Lawsuit name, court and case number:
Lawsuit name: Alejandro Flores v. Raiser, Danyelle Townsend and
Ken Tew v.
Court name: Federal Court
Case number: 15-cv-01175-LB, 2018 WL 2151231
Primary allegations made by plaintiffs in lawsuit:
The First case,
Alejandro Flores v. Raiser that was filled in the Federal
Court, described the conduct of Uber as the grossly negligent as well
as added that the organisation have departed from all of the
standard of care that are reasonable. One more lawsuit has been
submitted to the court in the San Francisco. The lawyers who have
filled
Danyelle Townsend and Ken Tew v. It was alleged by Uber that
the organisation would be having the physical, administrative as well
as the technical safeguards like the procedures of intrusion detection
which can detect the data breaches in one timely manner for
protecting and securing the National wide and Plaintiffs Class
members.
Outcome of case (e.g., ruling, settlement, still pending):
One of the major companies such as Uber have faced a high quality
threat of the security breaches than the companies that are small due
to the huge amount of the data and information that they processed.
The hackers had stolen the personal information that includes the
license and names of the drivers of over 600000 drivers in United
states of America, the name of the riders, mobile phone numbers and
email addresses. Uber has paid 148 million dollars. They have also
paid 1000000 dollars to the hackers for deleting the data as well as
for keeping the breach quiet. It was alleged by Uber that the

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