Uber Data Breach
In October 2016, ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies suffered a significant data breach compromising the personal details of 57 million riders and approximately 600,000 drivers worldwide.
Exposed Data Types
5- Customer names
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Driver's license numbers
- User IDs
About This Breach
Attackers accessed Uber's Amazon AWS cloud storage servers using credentials discovered in a private GitHub repository used by company engineers. The incident ignited an international corporate scandal after executive management concealed the intrusion for over a year, paying the hackers a $100,000 extortion fee disguised as a bug bounty before formally disclosing the breach in November 2017. Uber subsequently reached a $148 million nationwide settlement with US state attorneys general.
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