years massive data breach. doesn t sound like much, right? 145 million americans, we already knew, had their social security numbers compromised. the largest data breach of personal information in history just got bigger. but unlike those victims, the company said nearly 2 1/2 million customers only had their names and partial driver s license numbers stolen. so, you should be happy about that i suppose. there is also the issue of the ongoing lawsuits against the company including major class action suit in which all 50 states and the district of columbia are involved as well as actions being taken by nearly every state attorney general in the country. more on this. i m joined by pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro. josh, we ll dispense with the normal rant where i say the only job they had was to keep this information secure. exactly. my new rant is the consumer protection bureau which is meant to help people out in things like this has decided to take no action against equ
to the foxbusiness alert, washington state suing motel 6 for routinely giving guests information to immigration officials, the legal battle that is heating up. what is this about? reporter: the state of washington said this has been going on at least two years, motel 6 chains giving personal information like names, birth dates, driver s license numbers, even room numbers to immigration officials, they instructed owners and operators to stop doing this, motel 6 has come under scrutiny because the same was going on in arizona, two hotels there were found doing this as well. heather: let s go to airline travel, one of the great things is watching tv and movies especially on a long flight. reporter: that may come to an
looking to arrest immigrants. washington state attorney general bob ferguson filed a lawsuit alleging motel y rights of thousands of guests over two years. by providing immigration agents host a personal information when they showed up in the lobbies of several hotels. motel 6 turned over their customers, their guests room numbers, their names, guest identification numbers, their dates of birth, their license plate numbers and their driver s license numbers. ferguson, horse with the trump administration 18 times, more than any other ag, is seeking a court injunction to stop the practice. motel 6 which cooperate with the investigation issued a statement indicating that was done when these allegations were first made last fall in phoenix. in september, motel 6 issued a directive to every one of more than 1400 locations. making it clear that they are prohibited from voluntarily providing daily guest lists to immigrations customs
retail, amazon and the rest of what s survives online, will do well in 2018. looks like it s shaping up to be another record year. bret, back to you. bret: thank you. five u.s. senators want uber to tell them when it discovered a massive data breach and what he did to respond. the ridesharing company disk disclosed that hack last week. the data stolen includes names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers of 57 million riders as well as driver s license numbers of 600,000 drivers. uber says it paid the hackers $100,000 to destroy the pilfered data. says there s no evidence the information was misused. a drone operator has been arrested for flying his aircraft over two nfl stadium sunday. police say the suspect dropped anti-media leaflets over levi stadium where the san francisco 49ers were playing the seattle seahawks. and the oakland alameda coliseum where the readers hosted the
it, just learning about it, reportedly paid off the hackers, $100,000 to keep quiet and get rid of the information. the information that was stolen was names, email addresses of passengers. as far as the drivers, their driver s license numbers. another mess that huber has to deal with after they have been trying to get back on track. heather: packs and background checks on drivers, thank you, have a great week. the time as we move it along is 15 minutes until the top of the hour. the great holiday escape is on. more people than ever hitting roads, rails and skies, up next. a pop quiz, what do donald trump and charles manson have in common? i will be the devil, like or dislike nothing, i see