On Thursday, an attack on the Uber computer network took place. A cyber assault has had an impact on the company’s internal communications and engineering systems. The business said that it is looking into this cyber security-related issue. Apparently, Uber had to shut down its internal communication engineering system as a result of this security flaw.
A spokeswoman for Uber told the New York Times that the hacker used the Slack business messaging tool to access an employee’s account and carry out the attack. After that, he informed the staff via texts that there had been a data breach at the organisation. The New York Times representative was informed by Hacker that he is 18 years old.
Information on the users’ personal data leak has not yet been made public.
The 18-year-old student added that he had spent a lot of time honing his cybersecurity abilities. He gained access to the programme and supplied some screenshots as well. The security engineer of Couple Apps was informed by the spider that the hacker had access to nearly the whole system of the app, contrary to Uber’s claim that he is in discussions with law enforcement and would provide information in this respect shortly.
Users are seduced via a phoney social network site in the hacking technique known as social engineering. Hackers build a phoney website that mimics an authentic one. The hacker traps victims once the user enters his credentials.
Even before the business fell under the jurisdiction of investigating agencies, Uber has already been a victim of data bridge. 2016 saw the breach of information relating to 5.7 crore drivers and riders using the network. He had also offered the hackers $1,000,000.00. After a year, in 2017, this issue became well known.
