https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne3pqm/uber-data-breach-57-million-customers > Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million Uber riders in 2016, and the company paid the cybercriminals $100,000 to keep the data breach under wraps, according to a blog post published by Uber and a story by Bloomberg. > “Two individuals outside the company had inappropriately accessed user data stored on a third-party cloud-based service that we use,” Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wrote in the blog. “None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it. While I can’t erase the past, I can commit on behalf of every Uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes.”