Global taxi firm, Uber, has acknowledged that its drivers’ personal data has been leaked due to a software flaw. It reported that around 700 people have been affected in the USA. It looks like the details leaked included social security numbers, tax forms and photographs of drivers’ licences. It’s not known at this stage whether anyone outside of Uber was able to access the information leaked before the issue was fixed. In a statement, Uber said “We were notified about a bug impacting a fraction of our US drivers earlier this afternoon, and within 30 minutes, our security team had fixed the issue.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC news, technology
