Uber investigating computer network breach – report

Uber investigating computer network breach – report

A hacker apparently compromised an employee’s Slack messaging app and was able to gain access to other internal company systems

Uber said on Thursday it is responding to a cybersecurity incident, after the New York Times reported that a hack had breached the company’s network and forced it to take several internal communications and engineering systems offline.

A hacker compromised an employee’s workplace messaging Slack app and then used it to send a message to Uber employees announcing that it had suffered a data breach, the Times reported citing an Uber spokesperson.

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