#uber breach

Uber has recently revealed that hackers stole some personal information of 57 million Uber users around the world in 2016 and failed to disclose to everyone until now. According to Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, he learned about the incident recently but the company had already discovered it back in November 2016 and didn't disclose to users until now. Uber paid the hackers USD100,000 to destroy the data at the time. The "two individuals outside the company" had accessed user data stored on a third-party cloud-based service that Uber used and gained the names and driver’s license numbers of around 600,000 drivers in the United States. While I can’t erase the past, I can commit on behalf of every Uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes. Khosrowshahi became Uber's CEO in August this year. Starting June 15, you can be one of the first to try uberPOOL — a ride sharing feature that Uber launched in other countries that has been proven to cut down on the number of cars on the road. According to Uber's newsroom, this feature will work by following this instruction: Request: Under uberX, select the uberPOOL option. Read more in our articles including "Uber CEO says 2016 data security incident stole data from 57 million Uber users" and "Infinix GT 50 Pro now available in the Philippines".