Uber paid a 20 year old to destroy data he’d stolen from 57 million customers

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Uber paid a 20-year-old man in Florida $100,000 to destroy data from 57 million passengers and 600,000 drivers that he’d stolen in a 2016 breach, Reuters reports.

The man was paid through a “bug bounty” program companies use to pay hackers to test their software for vulnerabilities, although it appears that the hacker stole the information first and was then retroactively entered into the bug bounty.

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