Uber to pay $148 million to states for delay in reporting data breach

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Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and attorneys general from the other 49 states and the District of Columbia have reached an agreement with ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc. to address the company’s one-year delay in reporting a data breach to its affected drivers. As part of a nationwide settlement, Uber has agreed to pay $148 million to the states. Iowa will receive $612,950.24, which will go to the state’s Consumer Education and Litigation Fund. About 390 Iowa drivers were affected. Uber offered affected drivers free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. Some names and email addresses of riders were taken, but the data were not considered personal information as defined by Iowa law. 

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