Khosrowshahi criticized Uber's handling of its data theft in his blog post. Uber waited until Tuesday to begin notifying the drivers with compromised licences, which can be particularly useful for perpetrating identify theft. For that reason, Uber will now pay for free credit-report monitoring and identity theft protection services for the affected drivers. Kalanick, who still sits on Uber's board of directors, declined to comment on the data breach that took place in October 2016. As part of that settlement, Uber also paid a $20,000 fine for waiting five months to admit to another data breach that it discovered in September 2014.

Source: Bangkok Post November 22, 2017 06:45 UTC