[parfe]

The entity responsible is being punished. They're paying for identity protection for a year and taking yet another public image hit. The hacker? Whoever it was did society a favor by exposing yet another careless company giving away your data because they don't value security.

[sarciszewski]

I partly agree with parfe in principle. Uber is as responsible for this breach with their carelessness as the person who exposed it. That does not change the fact that there were 50,000 victims in the disclosure.