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  • Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People

    11/22/2017 4:44:30 AM PST · by Michael van der Galien · 6 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 11-22-2017 | Michael van der Galien
    This week Uber fired its chief security officer and one of his deputies. The reason? They had concealed a massive security breach for more than one year. And that's not all: in order to convince the hackers to delete the information on 57 million people, the security officers paid the hackers $100,000. "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...