Uber reached out to law enforcement after a hacker breached its network. A security engineer said the intruder provided evidence of obtaining access to crucial systems at the ride-hailing service.
FILE - An Uber sign is displayed at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Uber said Thursday, Sept. 15, that it reached out to law enforcement after a hacker apparently breached its network. A security engineer said the intruder provided evidence of obtaining access to crucial systems at the ride-hailing service. – Uber said Thursday that it reached out to law enforcement after a hacker apparently breached its network.
The hacker had alerted Curry and other security researchers to the intrusion on Thursday evening by using an internal Uber account to comment on vulnerabilities they had previously identified on the company’s networkThe hacker provided a Telegram account address and Curry and other researchers then engaged them in a separate conversation, sharing screenshots of various pages from Uber’s cloud providers to prove they broke in.
The Times said the hacker reported being 18 years old and saying they broke in because the company had weak security.
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