Covered up cyber attack on Uber service
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The Uber driving service is currently under criticism because the company covered up a cyber attack. Hackers steal sensitive customer data and use it to blackmail them.
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A report by Bloomberg according to it has one massive cyber attack on the ride-hailing service Uber given in October 2016. The hacker group managed to steal sensitive customer data from the US group’s network and thus extort a high ransom.
Uber did not publicly comment on the cyber attack at the time and apparently tried to to cover up the problem. After the hacker group managed to penetrate an Amazon cloud computing server and steal the data of 57 million drivers and customers, they contacted the company and demanded $100,000 ransom.
The attackers threatened to release the data, after which Uber paid the ransom. Uber’s then-CEO Travis Kalanick, along with Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and the company’s board of directors, is said to have ensured that the incident did not become public. Complaint was not reimbursed, but was Sullivan fired after the incident.
Uber now has the Attorney General involvedto investigate the hacking group. The security company Mandiant is also investigating cyber attacks on behalf of the group. In a statement on Monday, the CEO announced: “While I cannot undo the past, I can pledge on behalf of all Uber employees that we will learn from our mistakes.”
Shortly before, there had already been negative headlines regarding Uber, in the form of the so-called “Uber Files“. A data leak of 124,000 internal documents revealed the group’s lobbying work and showed a high level of manipulationto secure the launch in Europe.
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Reference-www.pc-magazin.de