Uber reports data breach affecting 57 million accounts
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Uber paid an amount of $100,000 to ensure complete removal of the data
Uber revealed on Tuesday about a data breach thatthe ride-hailing company sufferedin October2016.The data breach had reportedly affected about 57 million driver and rider accounts.
Information relating to their telephone numbers, emails, names had been compromised, the company said.The ride-hailing company fired its CEOJoe Sullivanfor concealing details regarding the data breach.
The hackers demanded payment from Uber in return forstolen data. Uber paid an amount of $100,000 to ensure complete removal of the data.The issue came to notice recently when the company's board conducted an investigation into Uber's past.
The newly elected Chief ExecutiveDara Khosrowshahi has decided to take an action on the matter.
The incident happened during the tenure of Travis Kalanick- Uber's co-founder, who was the chief executive at the time of the breach.
"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," Khosrowshahi said in a blog post.
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According to the company's account, two individuals downloaded data from a web-based server at another company that provided Uber with cloud-computing services.
Kalanick learnt of the breach a month after it took place, in November 2016, as the company was in negotiations with the USFederal Trade Commission over the handling of consumer data, according to Bloomberg.
Khosrowshahi said he had hired Matt Olsen, former general counsel of the USNational Security Agency, to help him figure out how to best guide and structure the company's security teams and processes.
"While I can’t erase the past, I can commit on behalf of every Uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes," he said.
"We are changing the way we do business, putting integrity at the core of every decision we make and working hard to earn the trust of our customers,"Khosrowshahi added.