Sentences with phrase «paying hackers»

This time, the company discloses a hack in 2016 that compromised 57 million accounts — paying hackers $ 100,000 in the process to keep it quiet.

While Warner's letter addresses some of Uber's straightforward cybersecurity failings, it also digs into the deeper question of how the company covered up its breach by paying its hackers to destroy the data they stole, including what kind of «assurances» the hackers provided to the company to demonstrate that they did in fact destroy the data in question.

And although paying the hackers may seem like a relatively small price compared with losing all that data, experts say there is more at stake.

In 2010, Google announced it would start paying hackers «bug bounties» if they turned over security holes and problems in its systems.

The ride - hailing giant disclosed this year it had engaged in a cover - up: paying hackers $ 100,000 to keep quiet about a trove of customer data they stole.

These programs, which involve companies paying hackers to disclose software vulnerabilities, are becoming nearly universal — even Apple, a longtime hold, finally announced the creation of a bug bounty system last month (and already a private firm said it will pay more for the same information).

Facebook's Bug Bounty program pays hackers who expose software bugs to the company's attention, but in this case the social network asserted it would not reward a anyone who tested a vulnerability on users» actual accounts.

Uber paid hackers $ 100,000 to cover up a 2016 cyber attack that exposed the personal data of 57 million people, including both riders and drivers, the company announced.

In a blog post, Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman speaks out about the attack, as well as why the company refuses to pay the hackers the $ 300 ransom they asked for.

Instead, the company paid the hackers $ 100,000 to destroy the data.

The worse part is that Uber paid the hackers $ 100,000 to keep it a secret, as the company dressed up the incident as part of its bug bounty program.

Uber Technologies Inc. has reportedly paid hackers to delete scores of private data stolen from the company in a security breach that was concealed for over...

The company paid the hackers $ 100,000 to keep the breach secret, which was made public in November.

Uber revealed last month that it paid a hacker $ 100,000 to keep quiet about the fact that he stole personal data on 57 million users.

Uber announced on Nov. 21 that the personal data of 57 million users, including 600,000 drivers in the United States, were stolen in a breach that occurred in October 2016, and that it paid the hacker $ 100,000 to destroy the information.

The Federal Trade Commission will not impose fines on ride - sharing giant Uber over the massive data breach it paid hackers $ 100,000 to cover up, CNN Money reported this week.

Instead of notifying users, Uber paid the hackers $ 100,000 to delete the data they got ahold of and keep the hack quiet.

They have money to pay hackers to do so.

Topface, one of the worlds largest dating websites, said it has paid a hacker an undisclosed sum to stop trying to sell about 20 million email addresses.

On today's show... VW won't meet a deadline to come up with a fix for its diesel engines, Uber is offering to pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in its software and a look at more of the reveals from the New York Auto Show.

I can't imagine anything sadder than players willing to pay hackers to get back at old foes, especially because it all started with a Halo 3 CTF match.

People used to ruin their entire late teens and early adult lives on these machines and now you can just pay some hacker to cheat your scores?

In case you thought data security for your law firm was a fringe issue, a Florida law firm just paid hackers $ 2,500 in Bitcoin to ransom back their data.

This is not the first time that Facebook is paying a hacker for pointing out a security flaw.

The FBI paid hackers to break onto the iPhone of the San Bernardino, California, shooter, according to a news report published Tuesday in The Washington Post.

Rather than responsibly disclose the hack, Uber paid the hackers $ 100,000 to delete the data and hid this attack for more than a year, in apparent violation of the law.

Uber Technologies Inc. has reportedly paid hackers to delete scores of private data stolen from the company in a security breach that was concealed for over...

Long, in attempts to make sure his patients were safe, paid the hackers four Bitcoin in ransom for the return of the hospital's stolen information.

To protect patients the hospital decided to pay the hackers, its CEO Steve Long is now educating others.

Not exact matches

It wasn't clear what the movie was, only that: «the hackers demanded that a huge sum be paid in Bitcoin.

But as new ways of paying for goods, such as contactless and mobile payments, become the norm for European consumers, there's a new opportunity for hackers — particularly if retailers don't store payment data securely, Symantec told CNBC.

«We believe that hackers have every affected person's Social Security number (s), military records and veterans» status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance, and pension information; age, gender, race, union status, and more,» Cox wrote.

Peterson says that this is an important move — whether or not you decide to pay off the hackers or ultimately press charges, «you want to open up that connection right away,» he says.

Your cell phone can be your wallet, but most people are still too worried about hackers to switch from paying with cards and cash.

This has resulted in «a catastrophic volume of global data loss,» because some victims end up paying off the wrong hackers, Flashpoint said in a blog post.

The gaming company said this week that hackers had released stolen data about its users, including emails, private messages, and phone numbers after it refused to pay $ 100,000.

In July, Twitter said it paid an Indian hacker $ 10,000 for discovering a hole in its Vine video service that allowed him to access the entire Vine codebase.

Facebook (fb) said this week that it has paid over 900 altruistic hackers more than $ 5 million since the social network debuted its so - called bug bounty program five years ago.

The search giant retires its annual hackathon, replaces it with an around - the - clock program that allows hackers to submit (and get paid for) finding bugs anytime, from anywhere.

The site signed up some 12,000 paying subscribers, providing them with both primers for cyberattack and Trojan software, which hackers use to illegally control computers.

The FBI is said to have paid professional hackers to break through the encryption of the iPhone 5c used by one of the perpetrators in the San Bernardino shooting last year.

More and more Australian businesses are being hit by hackers, who lock up files and demand a ransom — almost half of the victims pay up.

Even though the hackers didn't get away with their $ 50k in bitcoins, the city did pay over $ 2.6 million to ensure that they won't be vulnerable to a similar threat again.

In that case, instead of informing the ~ 57M affected users and drivers that their personal data had been compromised, Uber's senior management also decided to try and make the problem go away — by asking (and in their case paying) hackers to delete the data.

Uber did not report the incident to regulators or to affected customers, but instead paid $ 100,000 to «hackers» to get rid of the data in order to keep the breach under wraps, according to the report.

While the percentage of ransom victims who pay bitcoin to hackers in hopes of reclaiming their data appears to be on the decline, the total damage costs in connection to ransomware attacks is skyrocketing.

The dossier paints Cohen as a key player in the Russia - Trump relationship, and includes (again, unverified) claims that Cohen met with Russian officials in Prague in August 2016 to discuss how to pay Kremlin - linked hackers for targeting Clinton during the election.

Instead of disclosing the breach, Uber paid $ 100,000 to the hackers in exchange for their silence.

The ransom demand of Disney comes only weeks after a hacker uploaded 10 episodes of the upcoming season of Orange Is the New Black to The Pirate Bay after Netflix refused to pay an undisclosed amount.

Now, details about the hacker's identity are starting to come out — he is a 20 - year - old from Florida who lives with his mother and wanted to help pay the bills, Reuters reports.