You actually think the hackers deleted the info? They hoodwinked Uber out of $100,000, and made some more money selling the info.
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Hackers Stole Data From 57 Million Uber Drivers and Customers, Uber Paid $100K to Hide Attack
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Don't know if it's been noted here, but the "media" campaign against Uber began with The Verge, who's parent company is a major investor in Lyft. After a while, to make it not as obvious, Bloomberg started quoting The Verge and now a journalist/publicist (it's hard to tell these days) at Bloomberg with the V inspired name of Newcomer has taken the mantle.
The kinds of things for which Uber has been vilified, occur across the tech & taxi industries. It sounds bad when it's pumped up by a media campaign orchestrated by a competitor, but we need to be aware of all the facts when assessing the information we're being fed.
Neither ride-hire company has a viable business model that doesn't involve running at a loss, then jacking up prices once competitors have been eliminated (the Amazon business model). Neither are particularly admirable.
Keep deleting your Uber apps, though. Lyft will be laughing all the way to the bank at you.
The kinds of things for which Uber has been vilified, occur across the tech & taxi industries. It sounds bad when it's pumped up by a media campaign orchestrated by a competitor, but we need to be aware of all the facts when assessing the information we're being fed.
Neither ride-hire company has a viable business model that doesn't involve running at a loss, then jacking up prices once competitors have been eliminated (the Amazon business model). Neither are particularly admirable.
Keep deleting your Uber apps, though. Lyft will be laughing all the way to the bank at you.
Are you the one that pays off the ransomware and believes the promises of criminals? Dealing with legitimate businesses is hard enough sometimes. Good luck doing business with criminals.
Just one more reason that social security numbers should only be used for social security.
I am so sick of Uber. I never liked their business practices. Uber is SLEAZY!!!
I think a lawsuit is in the making somewhere in the US and in the rest of the world.
A bad and evil company is bad & evil because it is run by bad and evil people. It's unfortunate that when they auto-destruct, like they always do, they destroy other people's lives and reputation.
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A bad and evil company is bad & evil because it is run by bad and evil people. It's unfortunate that when they auto-destruct, like they always do, they destroy other people's lives and reputation.
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It's because they level the hackers' honesty on their own.Yeah, the data was deleted, honest
And Uber has the nerve to assign *Us* ratings
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Stealing the medical records of a victim seems ok to you?
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Stealing the medical records of a victim seems ok to you?
USA should be ashamed to be associated with Uber, call me 'old school' but clearly they, Uber, have business practices akin to a Harvey Weinstein and a Roman Polanski collaboration...
Lowest of the low.
#seedy
You can’t, but I’d rather find out my account has been compromised and delete my account ASAP than have Uber cover this up to keep as many customers as possible.
Not aware of what that document is. I’ll search it but Can you pls post a link in case I don’t find it? Thx.
Pumped up by the media? Are you saying the media made up things about Uber or the media reported on things Uber actually did? That two different things. Uber brings a lot of their problems on themselves. Example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...-for-allowing-dozens-of-unauthorized-drivers/
Perhaps you can provide an example where Uber was unfairly targeted.
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You're being quite charitable. I would be inclined to think of them as a slimy, untrustworthy, shady enterprise. This latest unforgivable maneuver begs the question: how much lower can they go?
However, with this duo of charlatans (Sullivan and Clark) now gone, I believe it will still take a minor miracle for this outfit to regain the consumer confidence they once enjoyed.
Excellent reputations take years to build, but are easily destroyed by thoughtless actions and dishonesty.
As shady as they come it seems. In addition to being banned in London which itself was a major blow for the company, Uber should be banned in New York which I think would be a big nail in their coffin. Uber will be a case model in business schools for how badly a company can squander its goodwill and name/brand.
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So do you think customers have the right to know about the breach, directly from Uber?
Patrik Sonestad, patrik@sonestad.se
There, I saved you 30 seconds of googling!
Mind you, I have a very uncommon name, like, I'm the only one. But since I live in a country where freedom of information actually means anything, "security through obscurity" doesn't really work here.
When you know that every bit of information about you is free and accessible to anyone, even stuff like social security number (we use our birthdate with 4 extra digits), salary, adress, cars owned, just about anything, the society build security through other means.
People clambering on about privacy always make me lol. There. Is. No. Privacy.
A report just came out that some 400 of the most popular websites track and log every keystroke you make and then upload via a script. Who knows what they do with it?
This means if you’re making a purchase, if you’re auto-filling out forms, the article even stated that if you copy and paste something from your clipboard, it’s also sent.
This breach reporting is just a media spin to create a false sense of security that was never there in the first place. Ie: if there was a “breach”, then something was “secure” to begin with, and this is false...
A report just came out that some 400 of the most popular websites track and log every keystroke you make and then upload via a script. Who knows what they do with it?
This means if you’re making a purchase, if you’re auto-filling out forms, the article even stated that if you copy and paste something from your clipboard, it’s also sent.
This breach reporting is just a media spin to create a false sense of security that was never there in the first place. Ie: if there was a “breach”, then something was “secure” to begin with, and this is false...
They hid it themselves. They failed to notify the victims. They pretended they were just paying a Bug bounty.
This is why Uber gets away with breaking rules and laws everywhere they go. Customers are happy to have a cheap and reliable service and turn a blind eye to everything else. That said, however, if you're on the internet and asking how Uber lacks ethics at this point, you're probably being willfully ignorant.
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