Uber Hacking Menace
- Locate a current article about how an organization was breached/hacked and customer data was stolen. The article can be published within the last 4 years.
- Complete the attached article form and post to the discussion area to share with your peers.
- Title your discussion board submission as we do not want any duplicate articles to make sure to check the boards to ensure someone else is not doing the same article.
- Once you have claimed your article and posted the title/author/form to the discussion area, write a 2-3 page summarizing what you learned from the article and what are some of the key items the organization needs to or needed to change to ensure that this breach would not happen again (or at least minimize the impact).
5. Submit your paper for grading and don’t forget to use APA for your formatting.
Answer preview
Introduction
Uber is one of the fast-growing organizations around the world in terms of technology. Ubers field of work is situated around the taxi, food delivery, and a bicycle-sharing system. All of its services are done online and using technological gadgets to secure them to their designated customers. The most successful segment of Uber is that of the taxi cab hailing where they mostly outsource small vehicles to be used as taxis. With this, they operate through an online mobile app where different drivers are uploaded and customers given the opportunity to engage them when in need of the cub services. However, in October 2016, their systems were hacked, and information about their customers was leaked.
Uber Hacking Menace
In 2016 the company was involved in cybersecurity whereby personal information of 57 million customers and drivers…
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