Dutch DPA
- Country
- Netherlands
- Fine
- 600,000
- Date
- 2018-11-27
- Sector
- Business Sector
- Articles
- Art. 33(1) GDPR
In 2016, a data breach occurred at the Uber group in which unauthorized persons gained access to personal data of customers and drivers.
The first notification to the AP took place on November 21, 2017. On the same day, Uber issued a news item about the data breach on its website. More than 57 million Uber users worldwide were affected by this data breach, including approximately 174,000 Dutch people. It concerned personal data such as names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of customers and drivers.