Uber used Bitcoin to pay $100K hacker ransom in 2017, court docs confirm

Uber used Bitcoin to pay hackers who held sensitive data for ransom, court documents have confirmed. As a result, two men pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and extortion, bringing a lengthy legal saga that embroiled Uber and LinkedIn-owned training site Lynda.com in costly data breaches to a close. To access the companies‘ servers, the hackers gained access to customer information by using Amazon Web Services logins belonging to Uber and Lynda.com employees. They then contacted both companies to extort them for hundreds of dollars‘ worth of Bitcoin. At the time, Uber agreed to pay $100,000 in the cryptocurrency. The…

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