Uber suffered massive data breach, then paid hackers to keep quiet

News has surfaced today claiming that oft-controversial taxi ride-sharing company Uber suffered a massive data breach in 2016. According to Bloomberg, the data of 57,000,000 drivers and customers was stolen, after which Uber not only kept the breach secret from the victims, but also paid the hackers $100,000 to “delete the data [and] keep quiet”.

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