Uber investigates a safety breach in its inside methods – Muricas News

Uber is investigating a cybersecurity drawback that has affected the corporate’s inside methods and that may have its origin in a social engineering assault that may have given entry to the Slack account of one of many staff.

This Thursday Uber disconnected inside communications and engineering methods in response to a safety breach that may have given an exterior actor entry to inside databases of the corporate.

This safety breach can be the results of a social engineering assault directed towards one of many staff who would have gotten entry to your account in Slack the communication service they use internally, and from there to Uber’s inside methods, as defined in The New York Occasions.

In response to the testimony of two staff, this exterior actor despatched a message to all staff by way of Slack, which might learn: “I announce that I'm a hacker and Uber has suffered a knowledge breach.” He accompanied it with screenshots of inside databases he claimed to have compromised, and contacted numerous safety researchers and The New York Occasions.

The corporate has confirmed by way of Twitter that they're “responding to a cybersecurity incident”. We're involved with the police and can publish further updates right here as they grow to be out there.

We're at the moment responding to a cybersecurity incident. We're in contact with legislation enforcement and can publish further updates right here as they grow to be out there.

— Uber Comms (@Uber_Comms) September 16, 2022