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Uber security breach may affect 50,000

The Columbian
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Thousands of Uber driver names and driver’s license numbers might be in the hands of an unauthorized third party due to a data breach last year, the ride-sharing company said Friday.

Uber’s managing counsel of data privacy Katherine Tassi said the company discovered on Sept. 17, 2014, that one of its databases could have been accessed, because one of the keys required to unlock it had been compromised. Upon further investigation, it found the database had been accessed once by an unauthorized third party on May 13, 2014.

The company could not say how the security vulnerability was first discovered because the matter is under investigation.

According to Tassi, the company patched the security vulnerability. It has not received any reports of misuse of the data.

The database contained only the names and driver’s license numbers of approximately 50,000 former and current Uber drivers from several states. Of the affected drivers, about 21,000 are based in California.

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