Security News > 2019 > October > 'Don’t be so concerned with your image'... US prosecutor lets rip on Uber for hack cover-up as pair plead guilty
2019-10-30 23:14
Scumbags admit extorting $100k from taxi app biz Two men have confessed they siphoned confidential information from poorly secured databases hosted in the Amazon cloud, and then demanded payment to delete their copies of the data.…
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