Uber Breach Exposed Names, Emails of More Than 20 Million Users

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: April 12, 2018 at 2:19:17 PM EDT
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>, Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: dataloss <breachexchange () lists riskbasedsecurity com>
> Subject: Uber Breach Exposed Names, Emails of More Than 20 Million Users
>
> Uber Breach Exposed Names, Emails of More Than 20 Million Users
>
> By
> Todd Shields
> April 12, 2018, 12:54 PM EDT
>
> A data breach exposed the names, phone numbers and email addresses of more than 20 million users of the Uber 
> Technologies Inc. online ride-hailing service, federal authorities said, as they chastised the ride-sharing company 
> for not revealing the lapse earlier.
>
> The Federal Trade Commission said Uber failed to disclose the leak, which occurred in 2016, even as the agency 
> investigated and sanctioned the company in 2017 for a similar data breach that happened in 2014.
>
> “After misleading consumers about its privacy and security practices, Uber compounded its misconduct,” said Acting 
> FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen. She announced an expansion of last year’s settlement with the company and said the 
> new agreement was “designed to ensure that Uber does not engage in similar misconduct in the future.”
>
> In the latest breach, intruders to a data-storage service run by Amazon.com Inc. obtained unencrypted consumer 
> personal information relating to U.S. riders and drivers, including 25.6 million names and email addresses, 22.1 
> million names and mobile phone numbers, and 607,000 names and driver’s license numbers, the FTC said in a complaint.
>
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> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/uber-breach-exposed-names-emails-of-more-than-20-million-users



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