Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data New York Times. Bill B:

Wow! *Not a peep* about Amazon Web Services, which is arguably the larger story. Witness the parade of breaches:

For example, an NGA contractor from Booz leaves a load of agency
intelligence in a S3 bucket.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/defense-contractor-stored-intelligence-data-in-amazon-cloud-unprotected/

Then a group of quants hired by the GOP leak data on 200 million voters.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/19/technology/voter-data-leaked-online-gop/index.html

And finally someone finds a Pentagon stockpile of social media intel.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/17/technology/centcom-data-exposed/index.html

People used to fear that men in black would come and steal their computers.
Now people are giving them both the data and the OS is rode in on.
Russian criminals suspected of hacking Uber users’ accounts The Times