Uber, the taxi-killing tech company long-run by a box full of assholes who have since mostly departed, revealed today that it was hacked just over a year ago and paid the hackers who stole millions of customers’ data to keep quiet. See – assholes.
The hackers stole info from 57 million customers, as well as the data from 7 million drivers. The info they accessed included names, email addresses, and phone numbers, but thankfully, did not include social security numbers, credit card details, or trip location info. At least 600,000 drivers did have their driver’s license numbers stolen, though. That’s all according to Uber, anyways, the company that successfully concealed this security breach for over a year.
Hackers were able to access all of the info by gaining access to a private GitHub that Uber engineers were using. From there, they obtained login credentials that allowed them access to the data that was stored on an Amazon Web Services account. Once they had it, they contacted Uber asking for cash.
Uber paid the hackers $100,000 to delete the data and also keep quiet, which is why we haven’t heard about this until now. Uber does not believe that any of the data was ever used, but would not disclose who it was that stole it.
Uber’s new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over in September, likely just found out about this breach and told Bloomberg that “None of this should have happened” and that Uber is “changing the way” it does business. Part of that response was the firing of CFO Joe Sullivan, the man who took the lead on keeping this all quiet.
Fun.
// Bloomberg
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Seriously, F Uber
Sounds like that breach with Essential, except on a much bigger scale.
As if I needed ANOTHER reason to find Uber disgusting and reprehensible.
I just joined Uber (Ubereats only) thanks to my Amex Plat perk this summer so I think I’m in the clear. It was hacked in 2016 correct?
I guess you could have read the Bloomberg article to answer that question.
But why not ask random internet users if your data has been compromised? Good long term plan.
Or maybe you just wanted to post that you have an American Express Platinum card. Awesome!
Detective Conan strikes again
Not surprising, given the rest of Uber’s fantastic business decisions.
This is why I’ve always used Lyft. ????
Hacking could happen to Lyft or any company at any time. We as technologists have not taken security seriously enough over these years and we’re paying the price now.