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Uber paid hackers $100,000 to keep data breach quiet

Uber paid hackers $  100,000 to keep data breach quiet

You can ask forgiveness for being hacked, but many people will find it harder to forgive and forget if you deliberately concealed the truth from them.

Graham Cluley

Uber paid hackers to cover up massive data breach

  1. Uber paid hackers to cover up massive data breach  Reuters
  2. Uber concealed huge data breach  BBC News
  3. Hack Brief: Uber Paid Off Hackers to Hide a 57-Million User Data Breach  WIRED
  4. Uber Paid Off Hackers To Hide Massive Data Breach  MIT Technology Review
  5. Uber Discloses Data Breach, Kept Secret for a Year, Affecting 57 Million Accounts  New York Times
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FBI Paid $900K for San Bernardino iPhone Hack

The FBI refused to ever share how much it paid for the hack into San Bernardino (D-CA) shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone, but thanks to Senator Diane Feinstein we now know the price was US$ 900,000. The Senator accidentally spilled the beans during a Judiciary …
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Hack Apple, get paid — by Apple

How much is a flaw in Apple software worth? The answer to that question has long been a mystery, because Apple didn’t pay security researchers who reported bugs to the company. That changed Thursday, when the head of Apple security, Ivan Krstic, said the …
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