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Two British Teens and Their Audacious Hack of Nvidia, Grand Theft Auto and Uber
At 9pm on September 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other side of the door was someone they believed to be behind two serious data hacks: one on Uber Technologies Inc. and the other an ...
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Uber Probing Hack of Third-Party Vendor After Employee Data, Source Code Leaked
Uber on Monday said it was probing the data breach of a third-party vendor after it was reported that the data of 77,000 employees was leaked along with source code for the Uber and Uber Eats mobile device management platforms. The company's vendor, Teqtivity, said it doesn’t collect or store sensitive information such as bank account details or ...
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Uber Data Breach: Former Security Chief Convicted by US Jury for Covering Up Massive 2016 Hack
Uber's former chief of security, Joseph Sullivan, was found guilty by a US jury of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge of a breach from authorities. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver's license numbers, according t...
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Uber Says Hacker Affiliated With Lapsus$ Behind Cyberattack: Report
Uber has reportedly said that a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was behind the cyberattack that caused the company to close down several of its internal communications and engineering systems temporarily last week. The hacker reportedly compromised the account of an employee's workplace messaging app Slack and used it to send a mes...
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Uber Says No Evidence of Sensitive User Data Loss During Hack: Report
Uber has reportedly said that there was no evidence that the hacker got access to sensitive user data. A recent report of a network breach forced the ride-hailing company to shut several internal communications and engineering systems. Uber reportedly began investigating the cybersecurity incident on Thursday.
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Uber Admits Covering Up 2016 Hacking, Avoids Prosecution in US Settlement
Uber on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with US prosecutors to avoid criminal charges.
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Uber’s Litany of Controversies Include Harassment, Data Hacking, Spying on Rivals and More
Uber is currently dealing with the new leaks that reveal how the company used various expansion tactics. However, the ride-hailing giant has previously faced controversy over harassment in June 2017, along with allegations on spying on rivals and data hacking.
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Uber's Ex CSO Helped Cover Up Silicon Valley's Biggest Heist: Report
Uber's former chief security officer Joe Sullivan was charged on Thursday as he allegedly arranged to pay the hackers $ 100,000 to cloak a high tech heist that exposed the personal information of about 57 million of the ride-hailing service's users and drivers data during 2016.
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From Yahoo to Uber, Major Hacks of Data
Following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, here's a look at the top data privacy scandals that have rocked the world in the past.
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Uber Said to Have Paid 20-Year-Old to Keep Data Breach a Secret
Reuters reports a 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber, and was paid to destroy the data through a so-called "bug bounty" programme.
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Two British Teens and Their Audacious Hack of Nvidia, Grand Theft Auto and Uber
At 9pm on September 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other side of the door was someone they believed to be behind two serious data hacks: one on Uber Technologies Inc. and the other an ...
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Uber Probing Hack of Third-Party Vendor After Employee Data, Source Code Leaked
Uber on Monday said it was probing the data breach of a third-party vendor after it was reported that the data of 77,000 employees was leaked along with source code for the Uber and Uber Eats mobile device management platforms. The company's vendor, Teqtivity, said it doesn’t collect or store sensitive information such as bank account details or ...
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Uber Data Breach: Former Security Chief Convicted by US Jury for Covering Up Massive 2016 Hack
Uber's former chief of security, Joseph Sullivan, was found guilty by a US jury of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge of a breach from authorities. In November 2016, Sullivan was emailed by hackers, and employees quickly confirmed that they had stolen records on about 57 million users and also 600,000 driver's license numbers, according t...
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Uber Says Hacker Affiliated With Lapsus$ Behind Cyberattack: Report
Uber has reportedly said that a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was behind the cyberattack that caused the company to close down several of its internal communications and engineering systems temporarily last week. The hacker reportedly compromised the account of an employee's workplace messaging app Slack and used it to send a mes...
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Uber Says No Evidence of Sensitive User Data Loss During Hack: Report
Uber has reportedly said that there was no evidence that the hacker got access to sensitive user data. A recent report of a network breach forced the ride-hailing company to shut several internal communications and engineering systems. Uber reportedly began investigating the cybersecurity incident on Thursday.
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Uber Admits Covering Up 2016 Hacking, Avoids Prosecution in US Settlement
Uber on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with US prosecutors to avoid criminal charges.
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Uber’s Litany of Controversies Include Harassment, Data Hacking, Spying on Rivals and More
Uber is currently dealing with the new leaks that reveal how the company used various expansion tactics. However, the ride-hailing giant has previously faced controversy over harassment in June 2017, along with allegations on spying on rivals and data hacking.
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Uber's Ex CSO Helped Cover Up Silicon Valley's Biggest Heist: Report
Uber's former chief security officer Joe Sullivan was charged on Thursday as he allegedly arranged to pay the hackers $ 100,000 to cloak a high tech heist that exposed the personal information of about 57 million of the ride-hailing service's users and drivers data during 2016.
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From Yahoo to Uber, Major Hacks of Data
Following the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, here's a look at the top data privacy scandals that have rocked the world in the past.
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Uber Said to Have Paid 20-Year-Old to Keep Data Breach a Secret
Reuters reports a 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber, and was paid to destroy the data through a so-called "bug bounty" programme.
