Uber suffered a large-scale cyberattack in October of 2016 that exposed the confidential user data of 57 million customers and drivers, according to a Bloomberg report published today. Former CEO Travis Kalanick was informed of the hack just one month after it transpired, but it was not publicly announced and in fact was concealed by Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and his subordinates, the report says, leading Uber to fire the executive and one of his lieutenants this week.
The company allegedly paid its hackers a $100,000 ransom to delete the data and not publicize the breach to media or regulators. “None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it,” current CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who replaced Kalanick as...
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