Uber paid hackers $100,000 to delete hacked data that was stolen from 57 million accounts in 2016

[newarkhiphop]

Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57 Million People

 

[88m3]

detestable company

 

[All Women Are Queens]

what if the hackers kept backups

 

[Jhoon]

what if the hackers kept backups

I’m sure Uber has money for that too.

 

[Geek Nasty]

what if the hackers kept backups

We hacked your account again, that'll be $200K please

For real though, I bet they encrypted all the files and uber had to pay for the password

 

[Arianne Martell]

 

[℃ertifed]

so I changed my password

 

[88m3]

Shouldn't this have been made public years ago?

 

[BaileyPark31]

This is crazy unethical.

 

[Serious]

what if the hackers kept backups

Don't worry they'll be straight they got:

 

[MJ Truth]

I got to get into the hacking game.

 

[MR. Conclusion]

The hackers probably had a history of being reliable enough (in the cyber security world) to provide the encryption key upon payment.

Uber made a calculated decision to pay the $100k vs losing millions in a PR disaster.

Of course that would only work if word doesn't get out.

My 2 cents.

I hear this happens a lot to hospitals.

Doctors can't work on patients if they don't have access to patient records. So hospitals pay up.