Uber has been hit with a £385,000 fine by the UK’s data protection regulator after a notorious breach in October/November 2016 which affected over 2.7 million users.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) branded the incident the result of “a series of avoidable data security flaws.”
The hackers managed to obtain username and password combinations previously made available via breaches and apply credential stuffing techniques to crack an Uber GitHub account. In fact, the attackers were able to identify the passwords for GitHub accounts belonging to 12 Uber employees as a result.
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