Uber just officially confirmed that the accounts of 57 million users were hacked last October 2016. The confession maintains that the hacked accounts belong to their own clients and none of them escapes, not even the drivers.
This is quite serious and more considering that the company made a payment of more than $ 100.000 to hide the hack. Now when more than a year has passed, an official statement appears in which it is explained that its database stored in Amazon Web Services was compromised by hackers.
The statement warns that all the data of these people adding from the phone numbers, addresses, license numbers along with all names and email addresses they were obtained by hackers. In the case of Uber drivers affected by this problem, reference is made only to residents of the United States and in no case does it speak of other countries. The reward obtained by the hackers and paid by Uber got the agreement to delete the data obtained and that this did not come to light.
At the end the report appears directly from Uber's own website and reveals everything that happened in the computer attack. In addition, the company adds an option to certify that you are not one of those affected by this hack that occurred last year in the case that you are a driver, you can visit the data from this link. And is that nobody is safe from being hacked and large companies are always the most sought after to obtain a financial reward. Not so long ago, thousands of Telefónica computers in Spain suffered a ramsomware attack that left them unusable for a few hours in exchange for an economic reward requested by hackers.