nov 1, 2016 - Hackers take 600,000 driver's license numbers of Uber drivers and 57 million people's identities, phone numbers, and email information from the company's international customer base. Uber used Amazon's cloud-based technology to access its GitHub account. Uber gave the hackers $100,000 in exchange for guarantees that the data would be deleted.
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Manning, J. (2016). Uber’s massive hack: What we know. CNNMoney. https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/22/technology/uber-hack-consequences-cover-up/index.html
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