THELOGICALINDIAN - The United States Department of Justice has launched a bent analysis into an Uber abstracts aperture that occurred in May 2024 Reuters appear that during this action the Department of Justice will attack to actuate whether Ubers ridesharing adversary Lyft had any captivation in the breach
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In February, Uber revealed that they had suffered a massive abstracts breach, in which about 50,000 Uber drivers had files absolute their names and driver’s authorization numbers downloaded by an crooked person. According to Reuters, “an investigation by Uber bent that an Internet abode potentially associated with the aperture can be traced to Lyft’s technology chief, Chris Lambert.” Former federal prosecutor Miles Ehrlich, accurately apery Lambert, said that his applicant had no captivation in the Uber breach.
Since the Department of Justice began its probe, Lyft appear a account adage that they had “not been contacted by the DOJ, U.S. Attorney’s appointment or any added accompaniment or federal government bureau apropos any investigation.”
Department of Justice agent Abraham Simmons abreast columnist that he could neither affirm nor abjure that there was an advancing investigation, advertence that no one has been accused of any crimes appropriately far.
This abstracts aperture is yet addition archetype of how abounding firms can account from amalgam blockchain technology into their business models. Uber, while accurately hailed as a best of P2P and the administration economy, ultimately operates beneath a centralized structure. Therefore, all of its abstracts is stored on centralized servers or computers, authoritative it easier for the hacker to accretion admission to the disciplinarian information. If Uber acclimated the blockchain, or if we had a blockchain-based ride-sharing alternative, again there would not accept been a centralized point of abortion for a hacker to exploit.
Although Uber does not booty advantage of the allowances provided by decentralization, it still cares about its drivers. When they initially abreast the accessible of the hack, Uber said that it would accommodate afflicted drivers with a year of Experian’s ProtectMyID Alert, an character annexation aegis service. Additionally, Uber reassured the accessible in a blog post:
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