Information about a particular hacker attack on the giant Uber was released, but the company soon after said that the news she was not truthful. The curious fact is that, shortly afterwards, she went public to admit that the attack was real. The hacker responsible for the attack has been identified as an 18-year-old.
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He sent a message to the corporate slack (messaging service) to announce his hack. Officials thought the announcement was nothing more than a joke. Unfortunately, this fact ended up exposing the company's security, e-mail and internal communication systems.
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A screenshot was also released through the Washington Post newspaper that ended up going viral on Twitter, where the message that was sent by the young man was displayed. It read: “I hereby announce that I am a hacker and that Uber has suffered a data breach.”
Soon after, the company's employees ended up reacting with countless emojis, that is, they acted as if the person had told a joke or how it was nothing more than a joke by some other classmate company.
After the attack was carried out, the hacker also released some screenshots showing Uber's internal information and systems. such as the AWS company account console, VMware ESXi virtual machines, and also a Google email dashboard Workspace.
He classified the images as something critical and related to security.
Several internal services were disabled, so Uber ended up communicating the local authorities about this attack. “We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in contact with the authorities and will post additional updates here as they become available. available", was Uber's response on the Twitter profile when asked about the whole situation.
Even having suffered an attack, the operations carried out by the application did not suffer consequences and there is also no indication that user data has been compromised due to the invasion of the young. In addition to having accessed the application transport company's system, the hacker would have also managed to access the company's source code.
If this information is confirmed, there is a risk that he could leak this code in the future, which could cause problems for Uber. The hacker told the New York Times that to gain access to the company's network, he only needed to send a message to a company employee. In the text, he claimed to be part of the IT team.
That alone was enough to convince the professional to give him the access password. The hacker also said that the reason for the hack was just to show that Uber has a weak security system.
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