New york Eight months of the year after lay bare a serious statistics violation, trip help Uber [UBER.UL] is putting attention its allowable goals on developing a good understanding of an affiliate address that it also has swayed a court docket may lead to figuring out the hacker. And two anonymous sources reportedly told Reuters that the IP address points to Chris Lambert, the chief technology officer of Uber’s main competitor, Lyft.
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As it stands, the court papers draw no parallels between the Comcast IP address and the hacker. The ruling was despite the fact that the IP address used to launch the attack is likely to be from a VPN.
On Monday Lyft spokesman Brandon McCormick dismissed the claim, stating that Lyft had investigated the matter “long ago” and determined that “there is no evidence that any Lyft employee, including Chris, downloaded the Uber driver information or database, or had anything to do with Uber’s May 2014 data breach”.
However, Reuters pointed out that McCormick declined to comment on whether the IP address belonged to Lambert.
Mr. Lambert declined to comment in person or over email. The subscriber’s lawyers protested in court that their client has been singled out for attention by Uber’s investigation at the cost of all other possible perpetrators.
When Uber publicly revealed a data breach of its database that contained the personal information of some 50,000 customers a full year after it had occurred, few thought things would get more murky and dramatic.
In a blog post on Uber’s website, the company’s managing counsel of data privacy Katherine Tassi said all impacted drivers were notified but she noted that as of February there were no reports of the information being used for fraudulent purposes.
They said that automated web crawlers, such as those used by Google, could have retrieved the information and cached it in a different location that could have been accessed by the hacker. One of those crawlers could have saved the key somewhere else, the subscriber’s attorneys argued in court filings, where it could have been accessed by the hacker.
However Judge Beeler countered that there is “no evidence” of the key’s availability outside of the context of the inadvertent GitHub post. Lyft is valued at $2.5 billion, compared to Uber’s $51 billion valuation.
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Mr. Lambert has been Lyft’s CTO since 2012, according to his LinkedIn page.
