Recently appointed Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently learned that in late 2016 that two individuals outside of the company had inappropriately accessed user data stored on a third-party cloud-based service: GitHub.Khosrowshahi said names, email addresses and phone numbers of 57 million Uber users worldwide were accessed, as well as the driver’s license numbers of about 600,000 U.S. drivers that the company employs He also stated that there was no indication that trip location history, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers or dates of birth were downloaded. Regardless there was confidential uber customer information that was compromised. The hackers are believed to have accessed information through GitHub, a software development platform used by Uber’s engineering and coding team, to carry out the breach. The hackers reached an agreement with Uber to delete the compromised data and be silent in exchange for $100,000.
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