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The Hacker News |
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2017-12-06 23:49:31 (vue: 2017-12-06 23:49:31) |
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Uber Paid 20-Year-Old Florida Hacker $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret |
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Last year, Uber received an email from an anonymous person demanding money in exchange for the stolen user database.
It turns out that a 20-year-old Florida man, with the help of another, breached Uber's system last year and was paid a huge amount by the company to destroy the data and keep the incident secret.
Just last week, Uber announced that a massive data breach in October 2016 exposed
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$100 000 2016 amount announced anonymous another breach breached company data database demanding destroy email exchange exposed florida from hacker help huge incident just keep last man massive money october old out paid person received secret stolen system turns uber user week year |
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