Uber Customers: Beware This Scam
Criminals are exploiting the news that Uber suffered a serious data breach to inflict more harm on Uber customers. As if it the pilfering by hackers of the names, email addresses, and mobile-phone numbers of 57 million customers of the ride service as well as the driver’s license numbers of 600,000 Uber drivers was not bad enough, criminals are now crafting sophisticated phishing emails that prey on the same group of people.
There are multiple variants of the scam — and surely more to come.
To learn more, please see my Inc. article, Uber Customers: Beware This Scam.
Joseph Steinberg is a cybersecurity expert witness and advisor, and a Lecturer on Cybersecurity at Columbia University in NYC. He has led businesses in the information-security industry for over two decades, and has written books ranging from the best-selling Cybersecurity for Dummies to the official study guide for a CISO certification exam. He is one of only a few dozen people worldwide to hold the suite of advanced information security certifications, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, and CSSLP, indicating that he possesses a rare, robust knowledge of information security that is both broad and deep; his information-security-related inventions are cited in well over 500 US patent filings.
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