http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/25/github_ordered_to_hand_over_user_data_to_uber/
By Kieren McCarthy
The Register
25 Mar 2015
GitHub has been ordered to hand over records on some of its users to
taxi-booking app Uber after unsuccessfully challenging a subpoena.
Last month, Uber announced its driver database had been hacked in May
2014, but it had only noticed in September of that year. Uber discovered
that a supposedly secret database access key had somehow ended up in a
couple of Gists in a public area of GitHub. It's alleged this key was
spotted by miscreants who used the key to delve into Uber's internal
database of driver names and license plates.
Uber asked GitHub to hand over the web access logs for the two Gist pages
for the May-September period.
GitHub refused, and so on 27 February this year, Uber created a John Doe
lawsuit in order to subpoena GitHub to hand over the logs. Earlier this
month, GitHub challenged the subpoena in a San Francisco court but lost,
with the judge late last week giving GitHub 30 days to comply.
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