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December 1, 2017 07:06 am GMT
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Uber reveals 1.2 million customers affected by hack in one country alone
Uber's once secret data breach affected 57 million customers globally, but it's only recently we've seen how the hack is affecting specific markets.
In Australia, the company's local arm revealed 1.2 million customers were affected by the data breach, as per a report by the Australian Financial Review.
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An Uber spokesperson confirmed the number to Mashable. The number was given to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, and was "an approximate figure because the app does not always record the country code where a customer lives," according to the newspaper. Read more...
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