Cybersecurity
Uber Faces EU-Wide Privacy Probes Into Hidden Hacking Attack
- Italian, U.K. watchdogs open investigations over huge concerns
- Dutch regulator also investigating after Uber notified them
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Uber Technologies Inc. faces privacy probes across the European Union from regulators who vowed to look into the huge data breach that the company hid for more than a year after hackers stole vast amounts of personal data about customers and drivers.
EU data protection officials from the 28-nation bloc will discuss the incident and its privacy implications at a regular meeting in Brussels next week, the head of the so-called Article 29 Working Party said in a statement Thursday. Multiple regulators in Europe earlier already vowed to start an investigation, with Italy’s data protection chief speaking of an “obvious lack of adequate security measures” at the ride-hailing company.