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Uber paid hackers to hide a hacker attack that affected millions of customers

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Taxi service Uber underwent a hacker attack, which resulted in the 57 data stolen from millions of passengers and drivers of the company.

According to Air force, The incident occurred in October 2016, however, it became known only now. Instead of reporting a burglary, the company paid thousands of dollars to 100 hackers to remove the data and keep everything secret.

Hacking stole the names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers of 50 millions of users. Uber worldwide, as well as 7 personal data of millions of drivers, including driving license numbers in the United States.

According to the manual Uber, hackers did not have time to use the information received.

«Ничто из этого не должно было произойти, и я не буду искать оправданий […] Я не могу стереть прошлое, но могу поручиться от имени каждого сотрудника Uber, что мы будем учиться на ошибках», — заявил исполнительный директор Uber Dara Khosrovshahi.

According to him, after the incident, the company took measures to ensure data security. Uber also hired a cyber security firm Mandiantto investigate what happened.

According to Bloombergformer head Uber Travis Kalanik knew about the incident. After it became known about the hacker attack, the head of security Uber Joe Sullivan left the company.

How hackers got the data

According to Bloomberg, two hackers managed to penetrate one of the user accounts of an online resource for developers. GitHub.

There they allegedly found logins and passwords Uber to access the cloud service platform AWS (Amazon Web Services), which is used by many large companies, including for storing large amounts of data.

In this case, Uber may suffer not so much from a hacker attack as from hiding information about the incident.

Regulators require all companies affected by a serious hacker attack to report this. Uber did not.

Uber faced with this in the past. In January, the company was fined thousands of dollars for 20, for not reporting a much less serious attack in 2014.

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