Late last year taxi-app company Uber was hit with a huge data breach that saw the personal information of 57 million users around the world held to ransom by hackers, including that of nearly 3 million of the company’s customers and drivers in the United Kingdom. If that wasn’t bad enough, the company chose not to let anyone know about it, only making the breach public after journalists at Bloomberg broke the story.

Neil Hodge is a freelance business journalist and photographer based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. He writes on insurance and risk management, corporate governance, internal audit, compliance, and legal...