Industry News: ESG5

The target: Uber, a ridesharing service.

The take: The personal data of 57 million customers and drivers, including names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers, as well as driver’s license numbers for hundreds of thousands of American drivers.

The attack vector: Attackers gained access to an AWS-hosted server with credentials an Uber engineer left publicly exposed in a Github repository.

Uber later came under fire for failing to report the breach at the time that it occurred, and attempting to pay the hackers a $100,000 ransom to delete the stolen data. The handling of the incident resulted in the dismissal of Uber’s Chief Security Officer.

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