Uber Probes Cybersecurity Incident After Alleged Data Breach

Uber Technologies on Friday stated that it’s responding to a cybersecurity incident involving a breach of its community. The ride-hailing firm confirmed that it has reached out to regulation enforcement after a hacker allegedly breached its community that compelled Uber to take a number of inner communications and engineering programs offline on Thursday. The hacker reportedly compromised the account of an worker’s office messaging app Slack and used it to ship a message to Uber workers saying that the corporate had suffered a knowledge breach.

As per a report by The New York Times that cited an Uber spokesperson, a hacker compromised an worker’s office messaging app Slack and used it to ship a message to Uber workers saying that the corporate had suffered a knowledge breach. The hacker reportedly obtained entry to different inner programs later and posted an express picture on an inner data web page for workers. The report additional provides that the hacker is eighteen years outdated and hacked Uber’s programs as a result of the corporate had weak safety.

Uber through a tweet on Friday acknowledged the information breach saying that it has reached out to regulation enforcement for investigating the incident. The firm assured that it’s going to submit further updates on Twitter as they grow to be accessible.

The San Francisco-based firm’s Slack communication system was taken offline on Thursday afternoon after workers acquired the message from the hacker, the report provides citing two workers.

According to the report, the one that claimed duty for the hack stated he gained entry by way of social engineering. He reportedly despatched a textual content message to an Uber employee claiming to be a company data expertise employee and persuaded the worker handy over a password that gave them entry to Uber’s programs.

Back in November 2016, a knowledge breach affected 57 million passengers and drivers of the trip hailing service.