Uber reportedly paid hackers $100,000 to remove the data of 57 million customers they stole in a massive 2016 data breach, according to Bloomberg.
Names, phone numbers and email address were among the data stolen. Around 600,000 driver’s license numbers belonging to Uber drivers were also compromised in the October 2016 breach.
Social security numbers appear not to have been stolen in the breach.
Uber executives reportedly concealed the hack for over a year and have been terminated, according to BuzzFeed.
Uber's current CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, criticized the company's handling of the data theft in a blog post that said there's no evidence the stolen information has been misused.
The company released a statement Tuesday on the 2016 attack.
The San Francisco company ousted Travis Kalanick as CEO in June after an internal investigation concluded he had built a culture that allowed female workers to be sexually harassed and encouraged employees to push legal limits.
Read more at Bloomberg.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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