Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million Peoples Data

[melm00se]

Source: Bloomberg

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 company ousted Joe Sullivan, chief security officer, and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps.

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 were accessed as well, including some 600,000 U.S. driver’s license numbers. No Social Security numbers, credit card details, trip location info or other data were taken, Uber said.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/uber-concealed-cyberattack-that-exposed-57-million-people-s-data

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Hmm; Sexism, fuck the employees, fuck the drivers, fuck the customers. I say fuck the shareholders.

[FrodosNewPet]

2. I hope the security on all those new Robo Volvos is tighter than this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029869796

[LisaM]

3. How people give this company a pass and continue to use their services is beyond me.

I know that we all have to deal with compromised data, and need to decide whether to keep going to Target, use our banks, whatever. It's an unfortunate aspect of an online world.

But Uber doesn't seem to have any redeeming qualities.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Just another reason

that I'm glad I never signed up for this illegal taxi scheme, or any of the others, for that matter.

[FakeNoose]

5. I've never used Uber, don't think I ever will now

I'm shocked that they claim to have 50 million customers. They've lost the data on every single customer they've ever had. Whoever runs Uber's IT department must be a collossal idiot.

Every person on their executive management team and IT department should be fired.

[dalton99a]

6. So Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep it a secret

Nice