Security News > 2017 > November > After Getting Hacked, Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret
2017-11-22 01:38
Uber is in headlines once again—this time for concealing last year's data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million customers and drivers. On Tuesday, Uber announced that the company suffered a massive data breach in October 2016 that exposed names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 57 million Uber riders and drivers along with driver license numbers of around 600,000 drivers.
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