Posted on 11/21/2017 2:39:16 PM PST by Red Badger
Hackers stole data from 57 million Uber users and drivers in 2016. The hackers stole names and driver's license numbers of around 600,000 drivers in the U.S., as well as rider names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers. According to Bloomberg, the company paid hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet, and did not report the incident.
Hackers stole data from 57 million Uber users and drivers, a breach that the company concealed for more than a year.
Uber released a statement on the 2016 attack, and also published resources for riders and drivers. According to the statement, the hack was performed by two people on a third-party cloud service. The hackers stole names and driver's license numbers of around 600,000 drivers in the U.S., as well as rider names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers.
Location history, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers or dates of birth do not appear to have been stolen, Uber said. Affected drivers will get free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.l
"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in the statement. Khosrowshahi was not with the company at the time of the hack attack, having joined as CEO just this fall.
Bloomberg and The New York Times previously reported details of the data breach.
According to Bloomberg, the company paid hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet, and did not report the incident. The ride-hailing company has now fired chief security officer Joe Sullivan — previously security boss at Facebook — for his role in hiding the data breach.
"At the time of the incident, we took immediate steps to secure the data and shut down further unauthorized access by the individuals. We subsequently identified the individuals and obtained assurances that the downloaded data had been destroyed. We also implemented security measures," Uber said in a statement. It did not address the payment.
Earlier this year, Uber agreed to 20 years of privacy audits after the FTC said it had "failed consumers" after a 2014 data breach.
In that separate case, the FTC said: "Uber failed consumers in two key ways: First by misrepresenting the extent to which it monitored its employees' access to personal information about users and drivers, and second by misrepresenting that it took reasonable steps to secure that data."
The data breaches, while small in comparison to Yahoo's 3 billion-account cyberattack, is the latest of several missteps within the ride-hailing giant. The company has fielded scrutiny over allegations of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct, has lost numerous executives amid dissent within the board of directors, and has sparred with regulators from London to Singapore.
"You may be asking why we are just talking about this now, a year later. I had the same question, so I immediately asked for a thorough investigation of what happened and how we handled it," new CEO Khosrowshahi said of the breach.
Well, well, well. Uber director, Holier Than Thou Arianna Huffington, now associated with hacking and hush money, to go along with Uber’s hostile environment workplace
I can smell the hypocrisy from here
Sounds like the perfect leftist company.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Anybody got a bridge in NYC or swampland in FL that they want to sell? I think I found you a buyer.
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“Uber Customers Taken For A Ride”....
Delete the data, hahahahahahaha!
“Delete the data, hahahahahahaha!”
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But they promised they would do it! Heh.
I’ll stick with a good ol’ taxicab company ride if I need one.
Yep the Establishment along with Uber tried to keep this quiet.
This is because they want to roll out to the public the Auto cars and Trucks over the next 5 years (when full 5th Generation or 5G rolls out and is like 4G today). They want to pretend these cars and trucks are safe when they are not. They will be on the coming to a neighborhood near you over the next 3 years.
Finally, it’s part of implementing the “control” and track grid. That way the Technocrats can control the future when everyone is being tracked. They call it mapping the human domain.
The only good news is we have until about 2025 or 7 1/2 years from now to get our crap straight. After that all bets are off.
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