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Uber fires CSO, says in Oct '16 personal info of 50M riders, 7M drivers, including 600K driver's license numbers, stolen; Uber paid hackers $100K to delete data — Company paid hackers $100,000 to delete info, keep quiet — Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and another exec ousted
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Sources: Kalanick and CSO Joe Sullivan ordered $100K ransom to be paid; Uber tracked the hackers, pushed them to sign NDAs, disguised the payment as bug bounty — SAN FRANCISCO — In November 2016, Uber executives faced an expensive — and risky — decision.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
New York attorney general launches investigation of Uber's $100,000 hack cover-up — The revelation that Uber concealed a major 2016 data breach affecting 57 million users and paid hackers to destroy the evidence is yet another PR nightmare from Uber's darkest era, but it's also a major problem …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Facebook plans to roll out tool to show users if they liked or followed a Russia-linked account on Facebook or Instagram but not if they saw Russia-linked ads — So far, Google and Twitter have not detailed their plans. — Facebook is trying to alert some U.S. users that they fell victim …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
NY AG says the FCC has ignored multiple requests for logs and records amid NY's investigation of the flood of fake net neutrality comments to the federal agency — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman revealed today that his office has been investigating a flood of spam FCC comments …
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| Bloomberg: |
Locus Robotics, maker of automated warehouse robots, raises $25M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners — Locus Robotics is raising serious cash in its bid to automate warehouses, bringing industry investment to $70 million this year. — A few years ago, Amazon.com Inc. triggered …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
California DMV website shows Lyft has secured a permit to test self-driving cars — Lyft is the latest company to get a permit from the to test self-driving cars on California's public roads, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles website.
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Sources: Apple acquired Vrvana, Canadian augmented reality headset startup, for $30M — As Apple reportedly ramps up work to ship an augmented reality headset in 2020, it has acquired a startup from Montreal, Canada that could help it get there. TechCrunch has learned that Apple has acquired Vrvana …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK government debuts Autumn Budget with new tech-focused initiatives: looser rules for testing self-driving cars, AI advisory body, £2.5B+ investment fund, more — With the UK government continuing to face down criticism over how it is handling plans to remove the UK from the European Union …
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| Lily Cusack / Reuters: |
EU agrees to abolish geoblocking restrictions on some goods on e-commerce sites by end of 2018; proposal excludes copyrighted content like streaming services — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union has agreed a plan obliging online retailers operating in the bloc to make electrical goods …
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| Reuters: |
Russia says it could act against Google if Sputnik, RT get lower search rankings, after Eric Schmidt said “those kinds of websites” should have less prominence — SAN FRANCISCO/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin will take action against Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) … | Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Orient Hontai Capital scraps plans to acquire mobile ad startup AppLovin for $1.4B after US government pushback, will provide $841M in debt financing instead — (Reuters) - AppLovin has tweaked a $1.4 billion agreement to sell itself to Chinese buyout firm Orient Hontai Capital into a debt investment …
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