{"id":1105,"date":"2018-11-28T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T12:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2024-06-26T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T06:55:11","slug":"uber-fined-281118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/uber-fined-281118\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Fined \u00a3385,000 For Data Breach Affecting Millions Of Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">Yes, the Information Commissioner Office has announced that Uber\u2019s European operations have been\u00a0<strong>fined<\/strong> for \u00a3385,000 for an incident that happened in November 2016, where attackers hacked the cloud servers\u00a0and downloaded 16 large files containing data of almost\u00a03 million British users, and 3.7 million users\u00a0worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">The hacked records include passengers\u2019 full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and the location where they had signed up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">The ICO said: The breach was caused by a lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/seersco.com\/articles\/what-do-you-know-about-information-security-policy\/\">information security<\/a>, and\u00a0Uber US\u2019s have to pay a \u2018bug\u00a0bounty\u2019 of $100,000 to the hackers instead of disclosing the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">However, this \u2018bug bounty\u2019 was not legitimate. Because the amount paid to outside attackers not\u00a0according to the normal operation of its bug bounty program. None of the affected individuals is\u00a0notified, and they began monitoring accounts for fraud after 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">In a statement, Uber said \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to close this chapter on the data incident from 2016. As shared with European authorities during investigations, we\u2019ve made a number of technical\u00a0improvements to the security of our systems. The improvements made in the immediate wake of the incident as well as in the\u00a0years since\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_3vFF3xH4Yd\" dir=\"ltr\" data-test=\"textbox\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/nov\/27\/uber-fined-385000-for-data-breach-affecting-millions-of-passengers-hacked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"listen\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber Security | Seers Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-megamenufull","category-uncategorized","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seersco.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}