Travis Kalanick needs to explain role in Uber’s data breach

What did Travis Kalanick know, and when did he know it? That’s the question Uber needs to answer after a stunning revelation that the company concealed a cyberattack last year that compromised personal information on 57 million Uber riders and 600,000 of its US drivers. Bloomberg News reporter Eric Newcomer wrote Tuesday that the company fired its chief security officer and one of his deputies for concealing the cyberattack, which ironically came at the same time that Uber was making up with regulators over misrepresentations of how it handled consumer and driver information. The new Uber Technologies Inc. CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, essentially fell on his sword and apologized for the company’s data breach and inexplicable failure to disclose it promptly. What he left unsaid was the role of Kalanick, the CEO at the time of the cyberattack and still an active participant in the company’s strategy and board of directors.