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One of the most notable data breaches disclosed this month was by Uber, given the company attempted to cover up the breach by paying off hackers. Over a year ago the transport tech firm was said to have paid £75,000 to two hackers to delete 57 mil… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for November 2017
In an interesting turn of events, the ongoing case of Waymo v. Uber, which was scheduled to go to trial next week, has come to a screeching halt amid allegations of Uber having withheld material information surrounding the existence of a unit within th… Continue reading Uber’s Shady Competitive Intelligence Unit Revealed in Court
Five U.S. senators sent letters to Uber Monday, pressing the company’s leadership for information on a data breach affecting millions of its consumers and the subsequent attempt to cover up the incident. The breach — which took place in October 2016 — provided hackers with the names and driver’s license numbers of roughly 600,000 drivers as well as the personal phone numbers and email addresses of 57 million riders. Instead of disclosing the breach, Uber paid a fee of $100,000 to the hackers, asking them to delete the stolen data. A letter co-authored by Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., presented a series of questions to Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, regarding the company’s past conduct and its plans to protect user data in the future. “Our goal is to understand what steps Uber has taken to investigate what occurred, restore and maintain the […]
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Uber was hacked, losing data on 57 million driver and rider accounts. The company kept it quiet for over a year. The details are particularly damning: The two hackers stole data about the company’s riders and drivers – including phone numbers, email addresses and names — from a third-party server and then approached Uber and demanded $100,000 to delete their… Continue reading Uber Data Hack
Uber was hacked, losing data on 57 million driver and rider accounts. The company kept it quiet for over a year. The details are particularly damning: The two hackers stole data about the company’s riders and drivers – including phone numbers, email … Continue reading Uber Data Hack
Uber is not known for it’s high level of ethics, but it turns out Uber paid hackers to not go public with the fact they’d breached 57 Million accounts – which is a very shady thing to do. Getting hacked is one thing (usually someone f*cked up), but cho… Continue reading Uber Paid Hackers To Hide 57 Million User Data Breach
HP released security firmware updates this week for dozens of printers, including enterprise models, to fix a high-risk vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-2750, stems from a failur… Continue reading HP Patches High-Risk Vulnerability in Business Printers
Uber is the data breach story of the week that looks set to become the saga of the month/quarter/year/decade. Here’s the story so far… Continue reading What we know about Uber (so far, anyway) [VIDEO]
Uber is the data breach story of the week that looks set to become the saga of the month/quarter/year/decade. Here’s the story so far…
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Uber suffered a breach in October 2016, which resulted in the compromise of sensitive information of some 57 million users and drivers, and paid off the hackers to keep mum about it. Compromised data According to a statement by current Uber CEO Dara Kh… Continue reading Uber suffered massive data breach, paid hackers to keep quiet about it