Uber hacker is a 20 yr-old Florida man

By Joseph Menn , Dustin Volz on Dec 7, 2017 3:19PM

Paid to keep quiet in bug bounty.

A 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for a massive data breach at Uber last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a bug bounty program, three people familiar with the events have told Reuters. Uber announced late last month that the personal data of 57 million users, ...

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