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13 Oct, 2015

Data breach exposes licenses, IRS details

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Uber’s Uber Partner app is found to inadvertently give anyone access to scanned documents for almost 1,000 drivers. The material includes high-resolution pictures of drivers licenses, W-9 tax forms, livery car company articles of incorporation, and other sensitive personal documents—many of which contain social security numbers. Uber:

As soon as we were made aware of this we immediately fixed it.

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