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Uber apologises to Brazilians for 2016 massive data breach
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IANS | 16 Apr, 2018
Uber on Friday apologised to its 156,000 users in Brazil, whose personal information was leaked in a major data breach in 2016.
In
an email to the users, the ride-sharing company admitted that their
names, emails and cellphone numbers had been seized by hackers in the
incident, Xinhua news agency reported.
However, it added that the
specialists hired to investigate the data breach had found no evidence
that records of journeys, credit card numbers, bank accounts or birth
dates had been seized. It also said it had not found any fraud or
illicit use of the data.
Uber was accused of having paid the
hackers to hide the lapse for over a year. The company paid hackers
$100,000 to destroy the stolen data of 57 million users worldwide.
The
Brazilian users were notified only after an agreement was signed
between Uber and the Brazilian Attorney-General's personal data
protection office.
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