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Uber reveals cover-up of hack affecting 57M riders, drivers

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE ers to be sexually harassed and working hard to earn monitoring and identity woman wouldn't comment
AP Technology Writer and encouraged employ- the trust of our customers." theft protection services for further. New York law re-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — ees to push legal limits. That pledge shouldn't ex- the affected drivers. quires that companies noti-
Uber is coming clean about It's also the latest major cuse Uber's previous regime Kalanick, who still sits on fy the attorney general and
its cover-up of a year-old breach involving a promi- for its egregious behavior, Uber's board of directors, consumers if data is stolen.
hacking attack that stole nent company that didn't said Sam Curry, chief secu- declined to comment on In London, Britain's Deputy
personal information about notify the people that could rity officer for the computer the data breach that took Information Commissioner
more than 57 million of the be potentially harmed for security firm Cybereason. place in October 2016. James Dipple-Johnstone
beleaguered ride-hailing months or even years after "The truly scary thing here is Uber says the response to said Wednesday the com-
service's customers and the break-in occurred. that Uber paid a bribe, es- the hack was handled by pany faces "higher fines"
drivers. Yahoo didn't make its first sentially a ransom to make its chief security officer, Joe because it concealed the
So far, there's no evidence disclosure about hacks that this breach go away, and Sullivan, a former federal hack from the public.
that the data taken has hit 3 billion user accounts they acted as if they were prosecutor whom Kalanick The Information Commis-
been misused, accord- during 2013 and 2014 un- above the law," Curry said. lured away from Facebook sioner's Office and the Na-
ing to a Tuesday blog post til September 2016. Credit "Those people responsible in 2015. tional Cyber Security Cen-
by Uber's recently hired reporting service Equifax for the integrity and con- As part of his effort to set ter are working to gauge
CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi. waited several months be- fidentiality of the data in- things right, Khosrowshahi the severity of the problem
Part of the reason nothing fore revealing this past Sep- fact covered it up." extracted Sullivan's resig- for British Uber users.
malicious has happened tember that hackers had The heist took the names, nation from Uber and also Uber's silence about its
is because Uber acknowl- carted off the Social Secu- email addresses and mo- jettisoned Craig Clark, a breach came while it was
edges paying the hackers rity numbers of 145 million bile phone numbers of 57 lawyer who reported to Sul- negotiating with the Feder-
$100,000 to destroy the sto- Americans. million riders around the livan. al Trade Commission about
len information. Khosrowshahi criticized world. The thieves also Clark didn't immediately its handling of its riders' in-
The revelation marks the In this March 15, 2017, file photo, a sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service formation.
latest stain on Uber's repu- at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Earlier in 2016, the com-
tation. It also brought an Associated Press pany reached a settle-
investigation from New ment with the New York
York's attorney general and Uber's handling of its data nabbed the driver's license respond to a request for attorney general requiring
threats of larger-than-nor- theft in his blog post. numbers of 600,000 Uber comment sent through his it to take steps to be more
mal fines from British author- "While I can't erase the drivers in the U.S. LinkedIn profile. Efforts to vigilant about protect-
ities for failing to promptly past, I can commit on be- Uber waited until Tuesday reach Sullivan were unsuc- ing the information that its
disclose the hack. half of every Uber employ- to begin notifying the driv- cessful. app stores about its riders.
The San Francisco compa- ee that we will learn from ers with compromised driv- On Wednesday, New York As part of that settlement,
ny ousted Travis Kalanick as our mistakes," Khosrowshahi er's licenses, which can be Attorney General Eric Sch- Uber also paid a $20,000
CEO in June after an inter- wrote. "We are changing particularly useful for per- neiderman's office con- fine for waiting to notify
nal investigation conclud- the way we do business, petrating identify theft. For firmed that it had opened five months about another
ed he had built a culture putting integrity at the core that reason, Uber will now an investigation into the data breach that it discov-
that allowed female work- of every decision we make pay for free credit-report data theft, but a spokes- ered in September 2014.q

Did you 'like' Russian propaganda? Facebook will clue you in

NEW YORK (AP) — Face-
book says it will show users
if they followed or 'liked'
Russia propaganda ac-
counts on its service or on
Instagram.
The company said Wednes-
day it will launch a portal
to let people see which
accounts of the Internet
Research Agency they fol-
lowed between January
2015 and August 2017. The
tool will be available by the
end of the year. But it won't
show users if they merely
saw — or even "liked" —
posts from those pages.
Facebook, Google and
Twitter testified before
Congress this month, ac-
knowledging that agents
tied to the Russian govern-
ment used their platforms
to try to meddle with the
U.S. elections. Facebook
has said that as many as
150 million Facebook and
Instagram users may have This Monday, June 19, 2017, photo shows a user signing in to
Facebook on an iPad, in North Andover, Mass.
seen ads from the Internet Associated Press
Research Agency.q