London — The UK regulator in charge of data privacy is looking into the major hack of Uber’s user data, opening up yet another front in the ride-hailing firm’s battle to manage one of its most successful markets. Hackers stole the personal data of 57-million customers and drivers from Uber, a breach that the company concealed for more than a year. "Uber’s announcement about a concealed data breach last October raises huge concerns around its data protection policies and ethics," said James Dipple-Johnston, the deputy commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office. "If UK citizens were affected then we should have been notified." Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 50-million Uber riders around the world, the company said on Tuesday. Concealing breaches from regulators and citizens could attract higher fines for companies, Dipple-Johnston said. A spokesman from Uber said the company was in the process of notifying...
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