Florida Man… pockets Uber cash to keep quiet about data breach

Florida Man… pockets Uber cash to keep quiet about data breach

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/07/florida_man_pockets_uber_cash_to_keep_quiet_about_data_breach/

A 20-year-old Florida man who lives with his mom was the "security researcher" that Uber paid off last year not to reveal a massive hack of its systems.

In a typically Uber take on network security, the ride-hailing app company paid the man $100,000 in October last year to destroy data he downloaded on 57 million users, including 600,000 drivers, and then pretended the payment was part of a bug bounty program, according to Reuters.