Hackers who tried extorting Uber, Lynda plead guilty
Two men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges related to hacking Uber and LinkedIn subsidiary Lynda.com in 2016, then trying to blackmail both companies into paying them to keep quiet about the incidents. Brandon Glover, a 26-year-old Florida man, and Vasile Mereacre, a 23-year-old Canadian, acknowledged their role iin a scheme to access personal information belonging to tens of millions of customers. The men said they were able to obtain customers’ information from Uber and Lynda by accessing Amazon Web Services accounts from both companies’ employees, then downloading troves of data. Then, they anonymously contacted security teams from both companies, promising to remain silent in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Uber agreed to the terms, saying it would pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin that the company later classified as a bug bounty payment, as long as the thieves would sign confidentiality agreements about the breach affecting 57 […]
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