WASHINGTON: The two people who hacked ride-hailing firm Uber’s data in 2016 were in Canada and Florida at the time, a company security executive told a U.S. congressional committee on Tuesday. Uber disclosed the breach of 57 million worldwide users in November, about a year after it occurred. Flynn confirmed the man who obtained data from Uber was in Florida and revealed that his partner, who first contacted the company on Nov. 14, 2016, to demand a six-figure payment, was in Canada. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said Uber’s management of the hack was “morally wrong and legally reprehensible,” and that the company appeared to violate state rules for data breach disclosure. Compromised data includes names, phone numbers and email addresses but not Social Security numbers or credit card information of Uber users.

Source: New Strait Times February 06, 2018 22:52 UTC