SAN FRANCISCO — A former chief protection officer for Uber was convicted Wednesday of federal rates stemming from payments he quietly authorized to hackers who breached the experience-hailing organization in 2016. Joe Sullivan was located guilty of obstructing justice for holding the breach from the Federal Trade Commission, which experienced […]
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California Voted for Cheaper Uber and Lyft Rides. It May Have Hurt Drivers
In 2020, California voters approved Proposition 22, a law that app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash said would improve worker conditions while keeping rides and deliveries cheap and abundant for consumers. But a report published today suggests that rideshare drivers in the state have instead seen their effective hourly […]
Uber was breached to its core, purportedly by an 18-year-old. Here’s what’s known
Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone. Uber employees on Thursday discovered that huge swaths of their internal network had been accessed by someone who announced the feat on the company Slack channel. The intruder, who sent screenshots documenting the breach to The New York […]
The Uber Hack’s Devastation Is Just Starting to Reveal Itself
On Thursday evening, ride-share giant Uber confirmed that it was responding to “a cybersecurity incident” and was contacting law enforcement about the breach. An entity that claims to be an individual 18-year-old hacker took responsibility for the attack, bragging to multiple security researchers about the steps they took to breach […]