Uber used Bitcoin to pay $100K hacker ransom in 2017, court docs confirm

The Next Web
By Yessi Bello PerezNov 1, 2019, 11:04 am114 pts
Uber used Bitcoin to pay hackers who held sensitive data for ransom, court documents have confirmed. As a result, two men pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and extortion, bringing a lengthy legal saga that embroiled Uber and LinkedIn-owned training site Lynda.com in costly data breaches to a close.…

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