Nevada to receive $1M-plus from Uber in hacking settlement

CARSON CITY — Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s office announced Wednesday that the state will get more than $1 million as part of a national settlement with the ride-hailing giant Uber.

The settlement stems from anovember2016breachof Uber’sdatabyhackerswho accessed the driver’s license information of roughly 600,000 drivers for the company nationally.

According to the release from the attorney general’s office, Uber pursued the hackers and was assured that the information had been deleted. However, the company did not report the incident as required by law until November 2017.

Nevada will receive $1,135,514 as part of the settlement.

In a statement, Laxalt said the money would be used to bolster the state’s background check system to ensure that guns are kept out of the hands of people who should not legally be allowed to have them.

“I am proposing that this settlement money be used to implement enhancements to Nevada’s background check system, one of the State’s most critical data libraries,” Laxalt said. “Thisisanothersteptowards putting in place the most significant enhancementofnevada’scomprehensive background check system since its inception — ensuring we are doing everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals.”

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