According to The New York Times, Uber was hacked, and after that, the company take its internal messaging service and engineering systems offline to investigate the incident. Publication Sources said that employees were instructed not to go on Slack, where the bad actor had posted a message that read “I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach” The hacker posted along with a bunch of emojis.
This breach is confirmed from the tweet and the company said that it’s currently responding to a cybersecurity incident and that it’s now in touch with law enforcement. Uber didn’t say what exactly the hacker was able to access and if user data was compromised.
