Massive Uber Hack

[de officiis]

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing firm ousted its chief security officer and one of his deputies for their roles in keeping the hack under wraps, which included a $100,000 payment to the attackers.

Compromised data from the October 2016 attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world, the company told Bloomberg on Tuesday. The personal information of about 7 million drivers was accessed as well, including some 600,000 U.S. driver’s license numbers. No Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken, Uber said.

At the time of the incident, Uber was negotiating with U.S. regulators investigating separate claims of privacy violations. Uber now says it had a legal obligation to report the hack to regulators and to drivers whose license numbers were taken. Instead, the company paid hackers to delete the data and keep the breach quiet. Uber said it believes the information was never used but declined to disclose the identities of the attackers.

“None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it,” Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as chief executive officer in September, said in an emailed statement. “We are changing the way we do business.”

Let's see: Yahoo, MySpace, Target, Anthem, Equifax . . . can we not do better than this?

[TheReal_ND]

HAPPENING

[SuburbanFarmer]

We could do better, DeO. We could actually make quality food, or not fuck the customer over at every possible turn, too. But it wouldn't be quite as profitable, and it wouldn't sustain the Infinite Growth Paradigm of American business.

Better to quietly 'substitute' key ingredients, until someone complains. Cheapen security measures, until they get hacked. Pollute and destroy the land, until someone dies from it. Then issue a PR statement, and move on.

[TheReal_ND]

Whataburger is pretty quality mate. Never even hacked me.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Whataburger is pretty quality mate. Never even hacked me.

Wait until it goes IPO. You'll be eating fried soy within a couple of years.

[TheReal_ND]

Yeah no I wont

[Okeefenokee]

They are going to do it well enough for you to pay for it. They aren't shooting for perfect. You can't afford perfect. They are shooting for good enough, and even after a massive breach of security, most of them have found that it was still good enough, or they'd have gone out of business.

This song and dance is getting old. Uber isn't going to go out of business over this, because people really don't care that much.

Immunity from security breaches is probably outside of what most businesses can fit in their budgets. Ignoring the dumb stuff, Sony got hacked by state sponsored hackers. There's only so much you can expect, and we've all come to terms with that.

We know we're vulnerable, and we aren't opting out. We're okay with the tradeoff.

[TheReal_ND]

Sony got hacked by state sponsored hacker

Yeah no they didn't

[SuburbanFarmer]

They are going to do it well enough for you to pay for it. They aren't shooting for perfect. You can't afford perfect. They are shooting for good enough, and even after a massive breach of security, most of them have found that it was still good enough, or they'd have gone out of business.

This song and dance is getting old. Uber isn't going to go out of business over this, because people really don't care that much.

Immunity from security breaches is probably outside of what most businesses can fit in their budgets. Ignoring the dumb stuff, Sony got hacked by state sponsored hackers. There's only so much you can expect, and we've all come to terms with that.

We know we're vulnerable, and we aren't opting out. We're okay with the tradeoff.

That’s only because the effects are still hidden. When this stuff starts to be used on a mass scale, financial panic will ensue. The entire system is undermined, but the average idiot can’t see it.

[TheReal_ND]

I should clarify, there is a lot of evidence, or rather there was when I followed the Sony Hack, that it was an insider that leaked. It's actually a convoluted story. NK was the obvious guy to pin it on because they were in fact involved nominally iirc. Going to have to go back to ATS to see if I can dig that one up.