Security News > 2017 > December > Uber Paid 20-Year-Old Florida Hacker $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret
2017-12-07 08:03
Last year, Uber received an email from an anonymous person demanding money in exchange for the stolen user database. It turns out that a 20-year-old Florida man, with the help of another, breached Uber's system last year and was paid a huge amount by the company to destroy the data and keep the incident secret. Just last week, Uber announced that a massive data breach in October 2016 exposed
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