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九月 30, 2019 - MorningStar

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Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach (cbsnews.com) 4

Posted by BeauHD from the hush-money dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: New details about how Uber responded to a massive hack attack in 2016 raise questions about the way it handled sensitive customer information. Instead of reporting the hackers to police, the company allegedly paid $100,000 in exchange for a promise to delete 57 million user files the men stole off a third party server, prosecutors said. Within weeks of paying the ransom, Uber employees showed up at Brandon Glover’s Winter Park, Florida, home and found Vasile Mereacre at a hotel restaurant in Toronto, Canada, the Justice Department said. The pair admitted their crimes, but Uber didn’t turn them over to the cops. Instead, they had the hackers sign non-disclosure agreements, promising to keep quiet. The two hackers pleaded guilty on Wednesday.

But there was a third person involved who was unknown to Uber, U.S. attorney for Northern California Dave Anderson told CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave in an exclusive interview. Anderson, who investigated the hack, said there’s “no way to know definitively” what actually happened to the stolen data. […] The hackers also targeted a company owned by LinkedIn in December of 2016, but prosecutors say LinkedIn did not pay and promptly reported the hack to police. Uber eventually did as well — a year after the hack, when new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, publicly disclosed the attack. The two known hackers were eventually arrested and pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit extortion charges. They face a maximum of five years in prison. The third person involved remains at large.

Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach

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  • They disrupted the market and took Uber for a ride… then were promptly rewarded? Somewhere at Uber HQ there must be a massive landfill of problems swept under the corporate rug.

  • I wish Uber would grow up and drop their corporate slogan, “Do evil.” That may have worked for them as a start-up, but it’s time to grow up and act like an established business that lobbies and manipulates the law so that they can follow it, while using it to block their competition. They’re not a mad scientist in a secret lair anymore.

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