The 2016 Uber Data Breach: Legal and Ethical Implications of Breach Concealment
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In 2016, the travel application Uber experienced acybersecurity breach involving the data of 57 million users acrossthe globe following unauthorised access to compromised internalsystems. The response from Uber involved paying a ransom to thehackers, Brendon Glover and Vasile Meracre; treating the incidentas a bug bounty submission; and concealing the breach for overa year, actions that had led to regulatory penalties, criminalprosecutions, and the conviction of the company’s former CSO(Chief Security Officer).
