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The world's most popular ride hailing app, Uber, was hit by a cyberattack late-2016, with the attackers making away with user-data on over 57 million riders registered with the service. The worst part? Uber allegedly bribed the hackers to keep the hack concealed from the public for a year. The company allegedly paid them over $100,000 to keep the hack hidden, and to "destroy the stolen data."
The cyber-attack compromised personal information such as "home" and "work" physical addresses (which you may have saved with Uber), e-mail addresses, full-names, and phone numbers of over 57 million Uber riders; and even more detailed information, such as driving license numbers, of the over 600,000 drivers worldwide, subscribed to the service. It's not known at this point, if the stolen data includes more sensitive details, such as credit-card numbers of the riders, or bank account details of the drivers.
Uber is notifying drivers to have fresh driving licenses made after surrendering their existing ones, offering to cover the costs, among other identity-theft protections. There's no concrete information on how Uber plans to make good with the riders, whose real-world information such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers are stolen.
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The cyber-attack compromised personal information such as "home" and "work" physical addresses (which you may have saved with Uber), e-mail addresses, full-names, and phone numbers of over 57 million Uber riders; and even more detailed information, such as driving license numbers, of the over 600,000 drivers worldwide, subscribed to the service. It's not known at this point, if the stolen data includes more sensitive details, such as credit-card numbers of the riders, or bank account details of the drivers.
Uber is notifying drivers to have fresh driving licenses made after surrendering their existing ones, offering to cover the costs, among other identity-theft protections. There's no concrete information on how Uber plans to make good with the riders, whose real-world information such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers are stolen.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
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