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Uber Faces Investigations Following Data Breach, Cover-Up

Ad hoc taxi company Uber has fired its Chief Security Officer and one of his deputies for an October 2016 data breach exposing the personal data of about 5o million customers and 7 million drivers, and for paying $100,000 to the hackers to delete the data rather than reporting the incident.

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