Uber Concealed Breach of 57 Million Accounts For A Year
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Firm Paid Hackers $100,000, But Was It Bug Bounty Reward or Extortion Payoff? Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about a 2016 breach that exposed 57 million accounts belonging to customers and drivers, Bloomberg reports. But was the payment a bug bounty, as Uber has suggested, or really an extortion payoff and hush money?
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