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The Uber Breach 2022. What Happened in the Uber Breach?

Uber recently notified authorities that they suffered a “cybersecurity incident.”  Meanwhile, the hacker behind the incident has publicly shared some startling details with news outlets, and also let Uber employees know – using their own corporate Slack – of the attack. Uber security and privacy woes started in 2011 with reports of parties treating guest to the  Uber’s “God View” . Apparently there were two versions of the “God View”. The anonymized version, which as OK, and the  “Creepy Stalker version” , showing whereabouts and movements of specific Uber users in real time . Entrepreneur Peter Sims was featured in the creepy version, found out, was upset about it, and wrote a Medium post (Can We Trust Uber?) which went viral. The news reports eventually gave way to regulatory investigations. Then came the breaches. Two breaches to be precise. The first breach occurred in or about May 2014 when an intruder gained access to personal information about Uber drivers. Uber suffered a secon