According to the statement, the hack was performed by two people on a third-party cloud service.
The rideshare company did not disclose any more information except that the hacker is a 20-year-old man from Florida.
Affected drivers will get free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.
It was revealed that even he was not aware of the 2016 incident until recently.
On November 21, 2017, Uber had announced about the data breach that took place last year.
We subsequently identified the individuals and obtained assurances that the downloaded data had been destroyed.
We also implemented security measures, Uber said in a statement.
You may be asking why we are just talking about this now, a year later.
Kalanick was aware of the breach and bug bounty payment in November of last year.
Bug bounty services are typically used by security researchers to report software weaknesses.
Reuters was unable to establish the identity of the hacker or another person who sources said helped him.
Uber spokesman Matt Kallman declined to comment on the matter.
Source:Reuters
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