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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by stochastic_monk on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:44PM (#15753796)
Just yesterday, I got some serious flak for suggesting that changing one person in leadership wasn't enough to make them not evil. I'm sad to see just how bad this is/was, but I'm not one bit surprised.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by leCapitalist on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:57PM (#15753858)
The new CEO found out about this, publicly disclosed it then fired the people responsible. Seems like progress to me.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by potatolicious on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:52PM (#15754097)
I think it's progress. Culture does tend to come from the top down - and just like dogs companies do have a habit of resembling their upper management.

Looks like they fired two people over this, pretty immediately at that. Uncertain if the new CEO was aware of the cover-up until (presumably) contacted for comment by a news org.

The fact that the cover-up persisted this long is bad, but on the other hand the Kalanick-era Uber probably would've gone to war with the journalists breaking the stories rather than admit fault, so there's that.

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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by pishpash on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:57PM (#15753857)
This happened last year.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by stochastic_monk on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:08PM (#15753917)
But the coverup persisted until just now. Kalanick has been gone for almost half a year.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by HaloZero on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:33PM (#15754261)
The new CEO has only been around for a month or two. I imagine it's a lot of information slowly coming forth.
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Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People by ballenf on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:59PM (#15754369)
The SoftBank due diligence team likely uncovered it.
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