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Uber leaks trip data and personal info via a simple Google search

By Ken Simpson | 1 minute read

Fetching this Google search URL provides a listing of random Uber trips that were somehow indexed by the search giant’s spider: www.google.com/?q=site:trip.uber.com:

Google search results for the domain 'trip.uber.com' reveal private trip information

Credit for this discovery goes to Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-Secure.

Update (4:54pm PDT)

Uber appears to have fixed the problem by amending robots.txt to explicitly deny all indexing of trip.uber.com.

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