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Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach... concealed for more than a year.
...names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million customers...personal information of about 7 million drivers
...600,000 U.S. driver’s license numbers. No Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken, Uber said.
Uber was negotiating with U.S. regulators investigating separate claims of privacy violations. Uber now says it had a legal obligation to report the hack to regulators and to drivers whose license numbers were taken. Instead, the company paid hackers to delete the data and keep the breach quiet.
Kalanick, ...former CEO, learned of the hack in November 2016, a month after it took place, the company said. Uber had just settled a lawsuit with the New York attorney general over data security disclosures
Salle Yoo, the outgoing chief legal officer...hadn’t been told about the incident.
“None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it,” Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as chief executive officer in September, said in an emailed statement. “We are changing the way we do business.”
Uber said it will provide drivers whose licenses were compromised with free credit protection monitoring and identity theft protection.
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Submitted November 22, 2017 at 12:00PM by wanmoar http://ift.tt/2iFV5o6
