(San Francisco, CA) — Uber kept quiet for more than a year that hackers stole data from millions of customers.
In late 2016, the company says personal information from 57 million users across the world was downloaded by two hackers that got into data stored on a third-party cloud-based service.
This includes names, email addresses and phone numbers, but the company doesn’t believe any bank or credit card information was stolen.
However, the hackers did steal names and driver’s license numbers of about 600-thousand drivers. Instead of reporting the breach to federal regulators, Uber paid the hackers 100-thousand dollars to delete the data.
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