+- Sinisterly (https://sinister.li)
+-- Forum: General (https://sinister.li/Forum-General)
+--- Forum: World News (https://sinister.li/Forum-World-News)
+--- Thread: The Uber Attack (/Thread-The-Uber-Attack)
Pages:
1
2
The Uber Attack - ethics404 - 11-22-2017
A group of hackers hacked Uber's 57 million customers' and drivers' data more than a year ago (October 2016). It's chief security officer and a deputy made a $100,000 payment to the attackers to hide this information.
Uber says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. The attackers didn't manage to hack Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/uber-concealed-cyberattack-that-exposed-57-million-people-s-data
RE: The Uber Attack - Jiggly - 11-22-2017
What data did they get then? Names?
RE: The Uber Attack - ethics404 - 11-22-2017
Yes. But I don't believe what Uber is actually saying.
RE: The Uber Attack - Altair - 11-22-2017
This was a known breach already, now confirmed by the company
RE: The Uber Attack - Oni - 11-22-2017
It's abnormal for a company to actually cave under demand. If it prevents the information from being leaked, I suppose it works.
(11-22-2017, 01:37 PM)Jiggly Wrote: What data did they get then? Names?
(11-22-2017, 12:31 PM)ethics404 Wrote: names, email addresses and phone numbers
RE: The Uber Attack - mothered - 11-22-2017
(11-22-2017, 12:31 PM)ethics404 Wrote: They didn't manage to hack Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data.
In terms of the exact data that was compromised, they'll never know for sure.
It's pretty difficult to pinpoint precisely what was/wasn't breached for a company on that scale.
RE: The Uber Attack - Jiggly - 11-22-2017
(11-22-2017, 03:43 PM)Oni Wrote: It's abnormal for a company to actually cave under demand. If it prevents the information from being leaked, I suppose it works.
(11-22-2017, 01:37 PM)Jiggly Wrote: What data did they get then? Names?
(11-22-2017, 12:31 PM)ethics404 Wrote: names, email addresses and phone numbers
Hurder I misread that.
RE: The Uber Attack - Bish0pQ - 11-23-2017
@Oni not really anymore, in my opinion. Think about all the companies that lost a lot because of all malware and ransomware that is floating around. NotPetya even fucked a whole lot of companies by still deleting all data after the company paid. Companies can suffer from great loss when their data gets hacked / leaked.
RE: The Uber Attack - JxHq - 11-26-2017
They tried to keep this quiet
RE: The Uber Attack - dr0ptbl - 11-27-2017
(11-22-2017, 02:33 PM)Altair Wrote: This was a known breach already, now confirmed by the company
was it known? i have never seen anyone offer db