Uber investigating hack on its computer systems

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The computer network of the ride hailing company has been penetrated.

Several internal communications and engineering systems had been compromised, according to the company.

Images of email, cloud storage and code repositories were sent to the New York Times by the hacker.

Two employees told the report that they were told not to use the app.

Before the Slack system was taken offline, a message was sent to employees that said: "I announce I am a hacker and the company has suffered a data breach."

The hacker gained access to other internal systems after posting an explicit photo on an internal information page for employees.

The company was in contact with authorities about the incident.

We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement and will post additional updates here as they become available.

— Uber Comms (@Uber_Comms) September 16, 2022

There is no indication that the hack affected the company's fleet of vehicles or payment data.

Hacker One is a bug bounty platform based in California. Big businesses use bug bounty programs to pay ethical hackers to find bugs.

The bug bounty hunter communicated with the hacker. He said it seemed like they had compromised a lot of things.

Several employees of the ride-sharing company said they were working to restrict the hacker's access.

There was no indication that the hacker did any damage or was interested in anything other than publicity.

Chris Evans, chief hacking officer for HackerOne, said that they were in close contact with the security team of the ride hailing company.

There are messages from someone who claims to be in control of some of the accounts of the ride hailing service.

According to the New York Times, an 18-year-old hacker has been working on his cyber-security skills for several years and hacked the systems of the taxi service.

The person said in the message that they should be paid more.

Humans are the weakest link in cyber-security, and once again this hack shows that it was an employee who let the criminals in.

The saying is very unkind.

This hacker was highly skilled and motivated.

Young hackers with plenty of time on their hands and a devil-may-care attitude can convince even the most careful employees to make cyber security mistakes.

This form of hacking through social engineering has been around for a long time, and it's just as old as computers themselves.

Today's hackers are able to combine the gift of gab with very sophisticated and easy-to- use software to make their job even easier.

The company didn't reply to the request for comment.