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Uber driver data exposed after third-party AI provider hacked
Thousands of Uber drivers had their personal information and driver's licenses compromised following a cyberattack on a third-party service provider.
Uber revealed in state filings that personal details and licenses of thousands of its drivers were exposed after an AI provider working with the company was hacked on October 9. Attackers stole internal credentials to access Uber data connected to the provider, which was identified as the cloud platform Fireworks.ai. Fireworks admitted to the data breach and attributed it to cybercriminals selling stolen tokens for large language models. While the total number of affected drivers has not been officially released, thousands of driver's licenses were exposed in specific states including South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
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