Uber Investigates Potential Breach Of its Computer System

Uber announced on Thursday that it is responding to a cybersecurity incident involving a network breach and that it is in contact with law enforcement authorities. The incident was first reported by the New York Times. When reached for comment, the company referred to its tweeted statement.  

As per two employees who were not authorised to speak publicly, Uber employees were instructed not to use the company’s internal messaging service, Slack, and discovered that other internal systems were inaccessible.

Uber employees received a message that read, “I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach” shortly before the Slack system was taken offline on Thursday afternoon. The message went on to list a number of internal databases that the hacker claimed were compromised.

“It appeared that the hacker was later able to gain access to other internal systems, posting an explicit photo on an internal information page for employees,” the New York Times stated. 

Uber has not released any additional information about the incident, but it appears that the hacker, believed to be an 18-year-old teenager, social-engineered the employee to obtain their password by impersonating a corporate IT employee and then used it to gain access to the internal network. […]
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