Slashdot Mirror
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to two unnamed Reuters sources the IP address of Lyft CTO Chris Lambert has been revealed by Uber's investigations to be associated with the accessing of a security key that was accidentally deposited on GitHub in 2014 and used to access 50,000 database records of Uber drivers later that year. However, bearing in mind that the breach was carried out through a fiercely protectionist Scandinavian VPN, and that Lambert was a Google software engineer before become CTO of a major technology company, it does seem surprising that he would have accessed such sensitive data with his own domestic IP address.
If RIAA and CSI taught us anything is that both IP and DNA are definitive proof of guilt. Since Chris Lambert was shown to have both, we can be certain he did it.
However, bearing in mind that the breach was carried out through a fiercely protectionist Scandinavian VPN, and that Lambert was a Google software engineer before become CTO of a major technology company, it does seem surprising that he would have accessed such sensitive data with his own domestic IP address.
What a great defense... there's no way it's me.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
My new airline is really cheap. I skip things like a 100 hour inspections, 135 certs, opspecs, and all the other things that make running an airline a huge PITA. I have a plane, what more do you want?