Hackers plead guilty in data breach that Uber covered up

Uber met the hackers' demand with a US$100,000 (RM417,000) payment, but waited until November 2017 to reveal the breach. — AP

Two computer hackers have pleaded guilty to concocting an extortion scheme that entangled Uber in a year-long cover-up of a data breach that stole sensitive information about 57 million of the ride-hailing service's passengers and drivers.

The pleas entered in a San Jose, California, federal court by Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre resurrected another unseemly episode in Uber's checkered history.