Two hackers pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of millions of customers they had stolen in late 2016. The hackers accessed and downloaded sensitive information of 57 million Uber riders and drivers, for which Uber reportedly paid the duo $100,000 in bitcoin in an attempt to cover up the breach. Uber waited a year to reveal the October 2016 data breach for which it was later ordered by the attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia to pay $148 million to settle the investigation.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/10/hackers-extorted-money.html