Uber Technologies, Inc. Data Breach: What Happened and What You Should Do
Uber Technologies, Inc. disclosed a data breach affecting 149,346 people. Here's what is currently known about the incident, what information may have been exposed, and steps you can consider taking.
- Company
- Uber Technologies, Inc.
- People affected
- 149,346
The Texas Attorney General report lists 149,346 people affected in total, including 4,296 Texans. Vermont lists 1,071 Vermont residents.
- Incident date
- On or about October 9, 2026
- Discovered
- October 13, 2026
- Disclosed
- November 10, 2026
- Information exposed
- Name, Physical address, Government identification, Date of birth
- Status
- Notification underway
Notices dated November 10, 2026 with complimentary credit monitoring and fraud assistance; Uber says it severed its data connections with the provider.
What happened in the Uber Technologies, Inc. breach?
How the attacker got in
An unauthorized third party used compromised service-provider credentials to access Uber data connected to that provider (on or about October 9, 2026).
Reports conflict
Timeline of what is known
- 01On or about October 9, 2026Unauthorized access
- 02October 13, 2026Breach discovered
- 03November 10, 2026Breach disclosed publicly
- 04November 10, 2026Affected individuals notified
Dates come from the sources listed at the bottom of this page. Separate events are kept separate; where a date has not been disclosed, it says so.
What information was exposed?
The categories below come from Uber Technologies, Inc.'s disclosure and the sources listed on this page. Each is labeled by what the evidence supports. Categories not mentioned in any source are not listed, even if they are common in similar breaches.
Name
Name (Texas AG report).
Physical address
Address (Texas AG report).
Government identification
Driver's license or government-issued ID number (Texas AG and Vermont AG filings).
Date of birth
Date of birth (Texas AG report).
Why this information matters
The risks below are the ones associated with the categories of information involved in this breach. This describes how exposed information can be used in general. It does not state that any of this has happened with data from this incident.
Information from one breach can sometimes be combined with information from other breaches or public sources. A name and email address on their own are limited. Paired with a date of birth from one leak and an address from a people-search site, they become enough to answer a security question or make a scam call sound informed.
Whether the data from this breach has been sold, shared, or used is not known unless a source on this page says so. Where that is documented, it appears in the "What happened" section above.
If you were affected, consider doing these things now
Practical steps for this breach, in rough order of priority. None of these require buying anything. Monitoring services, including ours, are one option among several.
- 01Enroll in the complimentary monitoring using the activation code in your letter within 90 days of the letter date.
- 02If your driver's license or ID number was involved, consider a free credit freeze with Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
- 03Watch for fraudulent accounts or applications opened with your license or ID, and report misuse to your state motor vehicle agency and the FTC at IdentityTheft.gov.
- 04Treat calls, texts, or emails that mention this incident with suspicion; call back only on a number from the written notice or the organization's official website.
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A breach puts information you can't take back into circulation. AI Protection watches for it being misused, alerts you when something changes, and helps you recover if something goes wrong. It cannot undo the breach or retrieve data an attacker already holds.
How one breach can contribute to a larger exposure footprint
A possible risk pattern, not a description of this incident. Each step is something that can happen after a breach. Nothing here states that it has happened with data from this incident.
Illustrative pattern- Step 1
One breach
A single company's records are accessed without authorization.
- Step 2
Personal information is exposed
Some categories can be changed afterward. Others, like a name or date of birth, can't.
- Step 3
It may remain accessible
Copies of breached data can persist well beyond the original incident.
- Step 4
Sources can be combined
Fragments from different breaches and public sources may be assembled into a fuller profile.
- Step 5
More targeted attempts
A fuller profile can make fraud, impersonation, phishing, or social engineering attempts more convincing.
A breach is an event. Exposure can last longer.
A password can be reset and a card reissued. Some information can't be replaced, and that is the part that stays useful to someone attempting fraud later. This does not mean fraud will occur. It means the risk does not close when the news cycle does.
Involved in this breach and hard to change
None of the categories reported in this breach are in the hard-to-change group. Changeable items like passwords and account numbers should still be addressed.
What Uber Technologies, Inc. has done so far
Only actions the company has announced or that are documented in the sources below. If something you'd expect to see isn't here, it hasn't been announced as of the last update.
Sources
Primary sources first: company disclosures, regulator and attorney general filings, SEC filings, court documents. News reporting is listed as secondary. Where reports conflict, the conflict is noted in the "What happened" section rather than resolved silently.
Last updated November 14, 2026 · First published November 14, 2026
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