Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by claudiulodro on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:17PM (#15752618)

I assume it was password reuse from one of their engineers or something similar. If you could compromise GitHub itself there would probably be higher value targets (source code for upcoming AAA games, Coinbase, government organizations, etc.)

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by thaumasiotes on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:56AM (#15754866)

> If you could compromise GitHub itself there would probably be higher value targets (source code for upcoming AAA games

I'm intrigued. Why would that be a higher-value target?

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by toyg on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:00AM (#15756393)

AAA games have budgets in the millions. Threatening full release would likely net you much more than a few hundred thousands, and without requiring any secondary attack.

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by davb on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:28AM (#15756580)

Are many (any?) AAA studios using private Github repos for development?

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by flylib on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:33PM (#15753738)

I mean 100k is a lot of money and there is no saying they didn't hit those guys also

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