Uber revealed last month that it paid a hacker $100,000 to keep quiet about a data breach. Details about the hackers identity are starting to come out. He is a 20-year-old Florida man who lives with his mother and wanted to help pay the bills. The payment was funneled to the hacker through the company’s bug bounty program, which invites hackers to find vulnerabilities in pre-determined systems in exchange for cash. The company then convinced him to delete the stolen data and sign a non-disclosure agreement about the incident.”]
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