Hackers stole data in 2016 Uber 57 million customers and drivers, and taxi magnate hide this data breaches than a year, it paid $ 100,000 for hackers to delete the data. With two hackers on Wednesday pleaded guilty , more details of the case came to light .
Incident occurred in October 2016, two hackers access through the use of proprietary software engineers Uber GitHub repository to obtain login credentials, and then use the AWS account credentials to log Uber, access to stored data, find information Uber customers and drivers, Uber then send an email to ask for money. After paying extortion gold, Uber employees within a few weeks to find the two men, they also admitted to the crime, but Uber did not hand them over to the police, but signed a confidentiality agreement with them, we ask them to promise confidentiality. The case also involves a third party, and exactly how to deal with stolen data no one can really know.