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Running head: UBER DATA BREACH
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UBER DATA BREACH
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November 17, 2018
UBER DATA BREACH
Uber Data Breach
What happened?
In 2016, Uber Taxi Company was the target of a cybercrime where hackers obtained records for
over 57million people including 50 million riders and 7 million drivers. This breach targeted
private information such as names, email addresses and credit card information. Apart from that,
over 600,000 licenses leaked to the internet (Etherington, 2017).
The company tried to pay off the attackers with a sum of $100,000 but they did not do any
follow-up investigation of damages to their systems and extent of the attack.
How it gets in
The hackers got access into the Uber software systems through their password protected
repository in GitHub. They found the login key left posted onto public forum accessible by all
developers. Researchers can sometimes include private information, usernames and passwords in
the code compilations stored on their repositories (Kahn, 2017).
Since it is a very prevalent case, hackers only need to scan codes stored in GitHub repositories
by famous companies to obtain encryption keys and password for their systems. This shows the
mistake of the company’s developers is trusting in the privacy of their accounts on cloud
platforms.
How do you prevent it?
GitHub will need to improve their interface so as to public viewership of any material unless
proper authentication is followed. Secondly, developers should edit their code to remove any
trace os sensitive information that can lead to attack (Kahn, 2017).
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References
Etherington, D. (2017, 11 15). Uber data breach form 2016 affected 57 million riders and drivers.
Retrieved from TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/21/uber-data-breach-from-2016affected-57-million-riders-and-drivers/
Kahn, J. (2017, 11 22). Uber Hack Shows V...