According to executives at the company, Uber had been the victim of a massive hack earlier in 2014, a serious breach of the company’s data that compromised the names and license numbers of more than 50,000 Uber drivers. Uber had kept the hack secret. It didn’t know how to tell the public, much less if it even wanted to do so. Kalanick didn’t know the law, and had no interest in making these calls. Though he certainly didn’t want to spur a public backlash, he always thought it was up to the legal and security teams to figure out what the solution was—and most importantly, to make it go away.
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