On November 28, 2017, Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced a lawsuit against a transportation services company for violating the state's data breach notification law. The lawsuit stems from the company's announcement that it had paid hackers $100,000 in late 2016 to destroy data on more than 57 million customers and drivers that had been stolen from the company.

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