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Uber Paid Hackers to Keep Massive Cyberattack Quiet
Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing firm ousted its chief security officer and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps, which included a $100,000 payment to the attackers.
Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, the company told Bloomberg on Tuesday. The personal information of about 7 million drivers was accessed as well, including some 600,000 U.S. driver's license numbers. No Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken, Uber said.
"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it." - Dara Khosrowshahi
At the time of the incident, Uber was negotiating with U.S. regulators investigating separate claims of privacy violations. Uber now says it had a legal obligation to report the hack to regulators and to drivers whose license numbers were taken. Instead, the company paid hackers to delete the data and keep the breach quiet. Uber said it believes the information was never used but declined to disclose the identities of the attackers.
See also: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/uber-concealed-cyberattack-that-exposed-57-million-people-s-data submitted by LoRdTAW.
Is it just me, or does Uber dig itself deeper each time?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:03AM (4 children)
The very fact that you think Google is composed of ultra-leftists kinda makes my point for me. Go back to bed, grandpa.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 23 2017, @09:46AM (3 children)
Does Google, or does Google not, push women as hard as they can into tech? It doesn't matter what the women want - Google is going to PUSH them into tech. Google is far enough left that they have no respect for women, instead, pushing their own agenda down women's throats. Of course, since you're a techie, and you're female, and since you're the smartest woman who ever lived on earth - you're all for that agenda. Women who don't follow your lead are all idiiots. That IS the left's view, after all. "My way or the highway!"
And, wasn't I arguing a little bit ago that there are no fascists in the staff? Here we have one telling me to go back to bed.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:55PM (2 children)
My God, this is completely off. I may work for a small independent computer place, but my degree is in earth science, not any sort of programming or compsci program. Google creeps me the fuck out. And I'm not the smartest woman alive, but it's clear I'm a hell of a lot brighter than you and probably about 90-95% of the nation...which on its own means jack and squat. That and $2 will get me on the Metro, but $2 alone would too.
And sure as hell not a fascist, either. You don't know what words mean, and your use of "fascist" to mean "anyone, especially some uppity Y-chromosome-less bitch who dares to disagree with me and call me out on my stupid horseshit," cheapens the word.
Go. Back. To. Bed. Or was your mother a "fascist" too when she said that?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:31PM (1 child)
"You don't know what words mean"
You're probably right.
"I'm a hell of a lot brighter than you and probably about 90-95% of the nation"
Then again, maybe I'm not. You're smarter than almost anyone, so you really need to run the nation with an iron fist, to keep us from doing stupid shit.
Fascism
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
That reads pretty much like today's "left" in America. Weren't we talking about Google's authority to force women into STEM, whether or not women want to be in STEM?
Oh. Maybe you really are all that smart. Maybe you ranked in the 98th percentile on all your tests all through school. Maybe you aced the ASVAB and every other test you ever took. You weren't in the military, I take it, so you didn't blow the military's tests away. But - how many people on this forum can honestly say the same? Smarter than 90-95% of the nation? Sorry, sweety - you're not smarter than I am. But, if you need to believe that you are, just forget that you've read this. Here. Have another cookie. Don't let all that crazy shit cook your noodle. The old man is just talking shit, after all. Right?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 24 2017, @05:05AM
Let's edit that a bit: smarter than you *and* less of a whinging, panicky, solipsistic child in an adult's body. Piss off and die, you whiny manchild.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...