Uber covered up a massive hack, an Apple supplier has been accused of using illegal student labour, and Meg Whitman is leaving HPE. Good morning! Here’s the technology news you need to know this Wednesday.
1. Uber reportedly paid hackers $100,000 (£75,500) to cover up a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 57 million people. The data breach, which occurred in October 2016, was not made public until Tuesday when Uber published a blog post about the incident.
2. An Apple supplier has been accused of using illegal student interns to assemble the iPhone X. Foxconn reportedly drafted in a team of 3,000 students to help assemble the latest iPhones.
3. Meg Whitman is stepping down from the CEO job at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Whitman was recently identified as being in the running to be the CEO of Uber, though she ultimately did not get that job.
4. Apple acquired Vrvana, a startup building a headset that can do both virtual reality and augmented reality. TechCrunch reports the purchase price was around $30 million (£22.
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