A 2014 breach of Uber's company data exposed names and license information for upwards of 50,000 current and former drivers.

 

Managing cybersecurity risk has quickly become one of the biggest organizational concerns of the 21st century, especially when that risk is distributed across a number of employees, partners and third-party vendors. But in the new and steadily growing gig economy, that risk can be spread far and wide: across thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of contract workers.

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Gabrielle Orum Hernández

Gabrielle Orum Hernández is a reporter with Legaltech News and the Daily Report covering legal technology startups and vendors. She can be reached by email at [email protected], or on Twitter at @GMOrumHernandez.