'Don’t be so concerned with your image'... US prosecutor lets rip on Uber for hack cover-up as pair plead guilty Two men have confessed they siphoned confidential information from databases hosted in the Amazon cloud, and then demanded payment to delete their copies of the data. Brandon Charles Glover, 26, of Winter Springs, Florida, America, and Vasile Mereacre, 23, of Toronto, Canada, each pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to …
If the crooks started talking Uber could sue to get their money back and the crooks would have a hard time convincing their next victim that paying money would buy more than a minute of silence.
The hard parts to understand are why the crooks signed their own names to an NDA and why Uber believed that public knowledge of their lack of security could make their reputation any worse. What might make a little sense is a contract not to distribute so Uber would not face any competition when selling personal data to everyone and his dinosaur.
The hard parts to understand are why the crooks signed their own names to an NDA and why Uber believed that public knowledge of their lack of security could make their reputation any worse.
It's a case of crooks working with crooks. Uber is all about disruption which means the rules don't apply to them, including the one about honor among thieves.
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