One case can hide another. 2014, Uber notices a bug that allowed hackers to extract data. While the start-up reported the problem to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), it discovered, two years later, that the data of 50 million users and 7 million drivers, including their driver’s license, had been they are also pirated.
Except that to avoid trouble, the company decides to pay a “bug bounty” – a reward for those who find a computer flaw – of 100,000 dollars to hackers so that they make the data disappear.
This Tuesday, July 26,
the US Department of Justice says it has reached a $148 million settlement
with the American giant to end the lawsuits. Before the new issue became known, Uber had already signed
an agreement for that of 2014
no fine, that one.
