Uber Drivers Defend Negligence Suit Over Data Breach To 9th Circuit

Mealey's (October 19, 2018, 4:20 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In an Oct. 17 appellant brief, two former drivers with Uber Technologies Inc. tell the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that their putative class action over the ride-sharing company’s 2014 data breach was improperly dismissed, arguing that they sufficiently alleged injuries sustained by hackers’ theft of their personally identifiable information (PII) (Sasha Antman, et al. v. Uber Technologies Inc. No. 18-16100, 9th Cir.)....