Uber on Wednesday confirmed that a software slip briefly exposed personal data of hundreds of US drivers.
The controversial ride-sharing company said that it stomped out the bug within a half-hour of getting word of the problem from a driver on Tuesday.
We were notified about a bug impacting a fraction of our US drivers,
an Uber spokesperson said in an email reply to an AFP inquiry.
Posts in online forums such as Reddit indicated that exposed information included driving license, tax, and Social Security data.
We’d like to thank the driver who drew it to our attention and apologize to those drivers whose information may have been affected
Uber promised to follow-up with drivers whose details were exposed.
Information regarding no more than 674 drivers in the United States was believed to have been exposed, with fewer than 1,000 individual private documents made vulnerable to viewing.
Drivers had to log in to their own documents pages to see information belonging to other drivers.
Limited information regarding some 50,000 Uber drivers in the United States was compromised early this year in a hacking incident that the California-based company is continuing to investigate.
