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Uber Discloses Database Breach, Targets GitHub With Subpoena

Posted by Soulskill on from the another-day-another-breach dept.

New submitter SwampApe tips news that Uber has revealed a database breach from 2014. The company says the database contained names and diver's license numbers of their drivers, about 50,000 of which were accessed by an unauthorized third party. As part of their investigation into who was behind the breach, Uber has filed a lawsuit which includes a subpoena request for GitHub. "Uber's security team knows the public IP address used by the database invader, and wants to link that number against the IP addresses and usernames of anyone who looked at the GitHub-hosted gist in question – ID 9556255 – which we note today no longer exists. It's possible the gist contained a leaked login key, or internal source code that contained a key that should not have been made public."

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  1. Re:Systemd, for or against? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As a long-time FreeBSD, I'm completely in support of systemd. Systemd has done a superb job of driving the best Linux developers and admins to FreeBSD. This renewed interest in FreeBSD is already seeing it get deployed for critical production systems, as well as on personal workstations. This will benefit the FreeBSD community later on, as these former Linux users are the ones who can make valuable contributions to our community and software.

    I don't fear that FreeBSD will ever be subjected to something like systemd, as well. While there has been talk of launchd-like software for FreeBSD, it has faltered and is not taken seriously. Furthermore, the FreeBSD community and leadership would not stand for something so awful ever getting its tentacles into FreeBSD.

    This new influx of Linux refugees will also further help make FreeBSD immune to systemd or systemd-like systems. These people have witnessed the destructive nature of systemd first hand. Many of them have had their systems rendered un-bootable thanks to updates that brought in systemd. Many of them have suffered the pain of binary log files. These people will defend FreeBSD from inferior init systems.

    Thank you, Lennart. Thank you, Red Hat. Thank you, everyone who is behind systemd. You've done the FreeBSD community a fantastic favor!