Uber is in hot water after a major cyberattack cover-up - here's the long list of scandals the company has weathered so far

"Uber's iPhone app has a secret back door to powerful Apple features, allowing the ride-hailing service to potentially record a user's screen and access other personal information without their knowledge," Business Insider reported.

"This access to special iPhone functions — which are so powerful that Apple almost always keeps them off-limits to outside companies — is not disclosed in any consumer-facing information included with Uber's app."

The DOJ is examining allegations that Uber may have violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The law makes it illegal for individuals and organizations to pay foreign government officials in order to obtain or retain business.

Bloomberg and Reuters both reported that the American ride-hailing company has been looking into multiple payments in Indonesia, Malaysia, and elsewhere.

"Transport for London said Uber was not 'fit and proper' to hold a license," Business Insider UK reported. "It said the company's approach to reporting serious driver offenses, approach to driver medical and safety checks, and use of its secret 'Greyball' software to dodge transport officials all contributed to its decision."

An early Uber investor, Benchmark Capital, sued Kalanick over claims he committed fraud in 2016. The suit centers on the creation of three additional board seats at Uber in June 2016, which Benchmark argued Kalanick is using to slow down his exit from the company.

A Wall Street Journal report that says internal emails show Uber managers in Singapore were aware of a April 2016 recall on Honda's Vezel SUV, but continued to rent the cars to drivers without fixing the defect. Honda recalled the car because it could catch on fire.

It's unclear whether Uber executives in San Francisco or then-CEO Travis Kalanick knew of the recall.

Kalanick resigned as Uber's CEO in June after investors demanded that he step down following an internal investigation into the company's culture.

The ex-CEO told several people at the company that he was "Steve Jobs-ing it", a reference to the cofounder of Apple who was fired from the company but later returned and turned it into the world's most valuable firm, according to Recode. Board members later shot down rumors that Kalanick would return.

Uber's business chief Emil Michael is forced to resign amid board pressure, bringing the number of executives to leave the company since the beginning of the year to an even dozen.

Emil Michael had overseen Uber's broader business strategy, including its partnerships and fundraising. Michael, who was known to have a direct role in several of Uber's scandals, resigns as the company nears the completion of its internal investigation. He blames the board, and not his own behavior, for his departure from the company, Bloomberg reports.

Recode publishes an internal message the CEO sent before the 2013 event. Reading a lot like what a college fraternity president might send out to his brothers, the email, which Kalanick sent out to hundreds of employees before the 2013 event and again the following year, spelled out company rules about drinking and sex.

Uber fires its head of Asia business, Eric Alexander. Alexander had been reportedly carrying around the medical records of a rape victim from India for a year and had shown them to other top executives.

Uber's top executives, including Kalanick, allegedly looked at the records and pointed to them while internally questioning whether the rape occurred, according to a report in Recode. The executives also speculated that one of Uber's rivals in India could have been using the report of the rape to undermine the company there, according to the report.

A day later the victim sues Uber over the mishandling of her private information.

Uber fires more than 20 employees as a result of its internal investigation. The company says it received 215 complaints during its inquiry into inappropriate behavior at its workplace, with the highest number of complaints related to discrimination, sexual harassment, and unprofessional behavior.

Uber reveals an accounting mistake caused it to shortchange its drivers in New York City for years. Uber tells drivers in New York City it will repay them "tens of millions" of dollars after it took more than its share of the fares customers paid for rides. On average, most drivers in the city will receive about $900, the company says.

The New York Times reports Cook accused Uber of violating the App Store's terms and conditions.

Uber had incorporated into its app a small piece of code that could identify particular phones, even if after they had been wiped of their data. The ride-hailing company had included the code to prevent fraud, according to the report. The software allowed the company to detect if someone was using the same phone over and over again but wiping it repeatedly to take advantage of promo codes.

A report by The Information describes a 2014 visit by an Uber team to an escort-karaoke bar in Seoul.

According to the report, "four male Uber managers picked women out of the group, calling out their numbers, and sat with them." After the evening, a female Uber employee told the company's HR department the trip made her uncomfortable, according to the report.

Five executives left the company in less than a month in late February and early March, including Uber's senior vice president of engineering Amit Singhal, who stepped down amid allegations of sexual harassment. Singhal, who passed Uber's standard background checks before joining the company, strenuously denied the allegations.

Uber used the tool to evade authorities, particularly at times when city regulators were trying to block the ride-hailing service, according to a report by The Times' Mike Isaac.

The tool collected data from Uber's app to identify and evade officials in cities like Boston, Paris, and Las Vegas. The Times reports that the program was used in markets where Uber was banned or being resisted by law enforcement.

Bloomberg publishes a video showing Kalanick losing his cool in an argument with an Uber driver after the driver confronted him about reduced fares.

Kalanick issues a "profound" apology and says he'll seek leadership help.

"My job as your leader is to lead…and that starts with behaving in a way that makes us all proud," he wrote in his apology note. "That is not what I did, and it cannot be explained away. This is the first time I've been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it."

Waymo, formerly Google's self-driving-car division, accuses Uber of using stolen technology to advance its own autonomous-car development. The suit claims a team of ex-Google engineers stole Waymo's design for the laser sensor that allows self-driving cars to map the environment around them.

In an open letter to Uber's investors and board, Freada and Mitch Kapor say Uber has ignored their years long behind-the-scenes efforts to positively influence the company's culture.

"We are speaking up now because we are disappointed and frustrated; we feel we have hit a dead end in trying to influence the company quietly from the inside," the Kapors write.

Susan Fowler writes in a blog post that she was sexually harassed at Uber and experienced gender bias during her time at the company. She claims a manager propositioned her and asked for sex, but she says her complaints to Uber's human resources department were dismissed because the manager was a high performer.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick immediately pledges to look into Fowler's allegations, and the company hires Eric Holder, a former US attorney general, to lead an independent investigation into its workplace culture.

In a follow-up story, The New York Times reported Uber employees allegedly did cocaine during a company retreat and a manager had to be fired after groping multiple women.

In January, the #DeleteUber movement led to a flurry of account deletions by customers upset about the company's ties to President Trump. The company lost more than 200,000 customers in just one weekend.

In April, Uber announced that it had agreed to settle a court case brought by drivers in California and Massachusetts for $84 million — $100 million if the company goes public at a higher valuation.

"Judge Edward Chen denied the plaintiff's motion to settle the case, saying that it was neither fair nor accurate, citing the tipping policy as one change not nearly as valuable as the settlement had suggested," Business Insider reported at the time.

Voters ultimately backed a law that requires drivers to get fingerprint background checks, despite Uber and Lyft's expensive campaign against the measure.

Uber driver Jason Dalton is accused of shooting eight people, six fatally, around Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Dalton had no criminal history and passed Uber's background checks. Dalton's rating as an Uber driver was "good," according to its chief security officer, Joe Sullivan.

In March, Dalton blamed Uber for the attack when he said to investigators that the app made him "like a puppet."

Uber agreed to pay $28.5 million to 25 million riders after plaintiffs in two lawsuits argued the company misled customers about safety practices.

As part of the settlement, Uber must refrain from using certain superlatives like "industry-leading" or "best in class" when describing its background checks.

In November 2014, Buzzfeed reported that Uber had tracked one of its reporters using a tool nicknamed "God View" that allowed the company to track cars and see personal information of the drivers in the cars.

Uber struck a settlement with the New York Attorney General, ending an investigation into the company's privacy practices, including its use of "God View." The company paid a $20,000 fine for not disclosing a data breach in a timely manner. It also removed personal information from tracking and limited which employees could use the tool.

French officials investigated the company and taxi drivers strike to protest the company's attempts to expand its low-cost UberPOP service.

"'Economic terrorism' is the favored term of Parisian taxi drivers for Uber’s lower prices, flexible hours and the way it is operating outside French law," the New York Times reported.

French courts cracked down on Uber, and UberPOP was discontinued in the country.

The Verge reported: "Uber snatched up about 50 people from Carnegie Mellon, including many from its highest ranks. That's an unusually high number of people to leave at once, and accounted for about a third of the staff NREC had at the end of last year."

The region of India banned Uber after a passenger reported that she was taken to a secluded area and raped by her driver.

BuzzFeed reported that Emil Michael, then Uber’s senior vice president of business, suggested that Uber should invest in opposition research on reporters during a private dinner he believed to be off the record.

"Over dinner, he outlined the notion of spending 'a million dollars' to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists," BuzzFeed reported. "That team could, he said, help Uber fight back against the press — they'd look into 'your personal lives, your families,' and give the media a taste of its own medicine."

Michael said he regretted the comments and that they didn't reflect his or Uber's views.

Uber's branch in Lyon, France debuted a promotion to pair Uber customers with "hot chick" drivers. After backlash, the promotion was quickly killed and scrubbed from the internet.

"I am not surprised that someone inside the company took Kalanick's callous attitude towards female riders and comments like 'Boober' to mean that shocking level of exploitation and disrespect was appropriate — that it would even be celebrated by HQ," Pando's Sarah Lacy wrote of the incident.

The Verge reported: "Uber is arming teams of independent contractors with burner phones and credit cards as part of its sophisticated effort to undermine Lyft and other competitors."

Similar to attempts to waste Gett drivers' time, Uber reportedly used this as a strategy to undermine Lyft and other rivals.

A GQ profile of the CEO reads: "When I tease him about his skyrocketing desirability, he deflects with a wisecrack about women on demand: 'Yeah, we call that Boob-er.'"

In the same profile, Kalanick says he'd rather be clubbing than working when he's in Miami.

Unsurprisingly, many saw this as a red flag for the company's culture.

Pando reported that an Uber driver who allegedly called a user a "dirty Mexican faggot" had a "criminal record, including felony and misdemeanor charges, and at least one felony conviction involving prison time."

"Uber employees have been posing as pedestrians, creating Gett accounts for the sole purpose of scheduling and then canceling Gett rides," Valleywag's Sam Biddle reported. "The result is clear: wasted time for Gett drivers, fewer available rides for Gett users, and general disarray for the whole service."

According to Valleywag, top Uber executives in New York City were allegedly involved in the plan and would try and convince the drivers to work for Uber. At the time, Uber called the strategy a "sales tactic" that got "too aggressive."

The suit, filed on behalf of 350,000 current and former Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts, claims that drivers should be treated as employees, not contract workers. If the drivers were to be considered employees, Uber would have to pay minimum wage and provide benefits such as health insurance.

The case was settled out of court in 2016.

Washington, D.C., resident Bridget Todd tweeted that a driver grabbed her out of the car by her throat because she was kissing her "white husband." The driver said that Todd was extremely intoxicated and had been behaving aggressively, and a fight had broken out between them.

Valleywag reported that CEO Travis Kalanick emailed the company's press team at the time, blaming the media for thinking that Uber is "somehow liable for these incidents that aren't even real in the first place."

With most public transportation down in New York City, Ubers were in high demand, leading to prices doubling. After being accused to price gouging, the company made prices revert back to normal, while continuing to pay drivers two times the rate.

Uber told customers that prices would increase due to increased demand on New Years Eve. However, people were still furious when they were forced to pay three to six-times the normal amount to get a ride.

According to New York Magazine's extensive list of Uber's ups and downs, the company's first scandal came before the startup changed its name from UberCab to Uber. Four months after launching in San Francisco, the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of California issued a cease and desist order.

UberCab changed its name to Uber. Six years later, San Francisco would have roughly 45,000 Uber drivers, compared to just 2,026 licensed taxis.