BALDWIN: An alarming cover-up here. Uber admits it paid hackers $100,000 to delete stolen information and keep quiet about it. Hackers stole the personal data of more than 57 million people and Uber executives took deliberate steps to conceal the cyberattack for more than a year. Samuel Burke is live on this, which is kind of frightening. What kind of information are we talking about?</s>SAMUEL BURKE, CNN TECH CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, this is unlike any other hack that I have ever covered. If you lack at it on the surface, if we put up a list of what was taken, you might think it was like some of the other hacks that we've had here on CNN that we've reported on, names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, 600,000 driver's licenses stolen, that's a bit different. But this is completely different from any of the other hacks for two reasons. Number one, Uber did not disclose as soon as they found out about this hack. They're supposed to do with that with pretty much every state in the United States, and to different countries. Already, the U.K. regulators have said they are supposed to know. And number two, and perhaps even more worrisome, is the fact that Uber actually told me they paid the two hackers $100,000. You're not supposed to pay the criminals. That only gives them a reason to do it again to more people, to the same company, possibly. This all happened under the old CEO. But the new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, put out a statement saying, quote, "None of this should have happened. And I will not make excuses for it. While I can't erase the past, I can commit on the behalf of ever Uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes." Those mistakes, Brooke, might turn into big legal headaches for this company, which is already facing a ton of black eyes.</s>BALDWIN: Yes. You're not supposed to pay criminals. Smartest thing I've heard all day. Samuel Burke, thanks so much. Quick break. We're back after this.
Uber Accused of Cyberattack Coverup