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Congressman calls for greater details in Uber data breach

Federal Times: Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., recently sent a letter to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi calling for greater details on a hack that impacted millions of users and hundreds of thousands of drivers in November 2016 and was only reported to consumers in November 2017.

“Uber’s conduct raises serious questions about the company’s compliance with relevant state and federal regulations,” Warner wrote in the letter, which he published on Scribd. “According to reports, the handling of this major breach was led by your predecessor and his hand-picked chief security officer, both of whom have been alleged to have cultivated a corporate culture that encouraged senior management to ‘push legal boundaries and look the other way.’ While I applaud you for ordering an investigation, firing two senior executives implicated in the decisions related to the handling of this breach and pledging to cooperate with law enforcement, I have a number of questions to which I am eager to receive your answers.”

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