ICO statement on Uber data breach
James Dipple-Johnstone, ICO Deputy Commissioner said:
“Uber’s announcement about a concealed data breach last October 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.
“We’ll be working with the NCSC plus other relevant authorities in the UK and overseas to determine the scale of the breach, how it has affected people in the UK and what steps need to be taken by the firm to ensure it fully complies with its data protection obligations.
“Deliberately concealing breaches from regulators and citizens could attract higher fines for companies.”