Uber has confirmed that hackers stole driver's license information belonging to thousands of its drivers.
The information was stored by Fireworks AI, an AI cloud company, and was stolen during a security incident, Uber said.
A driver's license record is a government-issued ID, and unlike a password it cannot be reset once it is in someone else's hands. That is why this type of data draws more concern than a leaked email address.
The details available give a range rather than a count: "thousands." They also do not describe how the attackers got in, which fields were taken beyond the license information, or what Uber is offering affected drivers. Until a precise number and a description of the stolen data are public, "thousands" could mean 2,000 or 90,000.