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Mentioning data breaches usually ends up by people referring to the recent Facebook scandal, which is obvious because it is the latest and one of the biggest data-breach scandals in recent times. The Facebook scandal however isn’t one-of-its kind, because behind-the-scenes a lot of ‘renowned’ companies are using the same tactics to earn some money on the side, from unsuspecting customers. In 2017, ride-sharing company Uber, supposedly <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/11/21/uber-kept-mum-year-hack-info-57-million-riders-and-drivers/887002001/" target="_blank">paid hackers</a> a large sum of money to destroy the personal data of 57 million of its users, that the hackers maliciously retrieved from the Uber databases.