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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, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 22 2017, @08:52PM (1 child)
Yeah, I've been thinking something similar for a while now. Between Uzzard's self-fellating laissez-faire fuck you got mine attitude (doesn't that HURT with a beak?!), Runaway's increasingly unhinged Unabomber-sounding rants, Bradley13's article basically saying "some races are stupid because genes (but don't mention Ashkenazi Jews are the smartest!) being accepted, and J-Mo's outright sociopathy on constant full blast, I'm beginning to wonder just what kind of goose-stepping skeletons live in this staff's server closet.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by NewNic on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:35PM
Also, there is khallow's "I'm just going to ignore well-sourced facts, if they don't accord with my world view" approach, as seen in this thread:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=22670&cid=599794 [soylentnews.org]
If Soylentnews had more traffic I would think that he is a paid troll.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory