Chicago Hires Class Action Firm to Sue Uber Over Data Breach

Chicago has retained a plaintiffs’ litigation firm that focuses on technology and privacy cases to file a class consumer fraud lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. over a recently disclosed breach that exposed the data of potentially hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents.

That move was closely followed by an announcement that Washington state has filed its own lawsuit against the ride-hailing company.

Uber should be accountable for the new breach because it failed to live up to promises it made in a 2014 data breach settlement with the city to correct information system vulnerabilities, according to the complaint filed Nov. ...