Uber hurt by hackers

PERSONAL information of more than one in 10 Australians was stolen in an “astonishing” hack on Uber that the ride-sharing giant covered up for more than a year.

The company revealed the details of 50 million customers and 7 million drivers – including names, email addresses and phone numbers – had been compromised in the data theft, which it tried to cover up by paying a $US100,000 ransom to the perpetrators – a move new chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi admitted “should not have happened”.