{"id":461048,"date":"2022-09-19T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=461048"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:45:20","slug":"uber-assures-no-sensitive-user-data-was-compromised-during-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/461048-uber-assures-no-sensitive-user-data-was-compromised-during-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber assures no sensitive user data was compromised during attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uber says<\/a><\/strong> there is no evidence that sensitive user data was compromised during an attack that occurred on Thursday, 15 September 2022.<\/p>\n

The company also said its internal software tools are fully operational again after it shut them down as a precaution.<\/p>\n

“We have no evidence that the incident involved access to sensitive user data (like trip history),” Uber said.<\/p>\n

“All of our services including Uber, Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and the Uber Driver app are operational.”<\/p>\n

The ride-hailing company reiterated that it had notified law enforcement of the issue.<\/p>\n

The Hacker News spoke<\/a><\/strong> to independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi, who described Uber’s stance on the matter as “sketchy”.<\/p>\n

“‘No evidence’ could mean the attacker did have access, Uber just hasn’t found evidence that the attacker *used* that access for ‘sensitive’ user data,” The Hacker News quoted Demirkapi as saying.<\/p>\n

“Explicitly saying “sensitive” user data rather than user data overall is also weird.”<\/p>\n

The malicious actor who gained access to Uber’s systems<\/a><\/strong> through a social engineering attack compromised\u00a0its internal systems, email dashboard, and Slack server.<\/p>\n

The attacker also accessed Uber vulnerability reports and shared screenshots which appear to prove that they had access to Uber’s critical IT systems.<\/p>\n

Compromised critical systems included Uber’s security software, Windows domain, Amazon Web Services console, email admin dashboard, and Slack server \u2014 to which the attacker posted messages.<\/p>\n

The hacker revealed they could access Uber’s IT systems after performing a social engineering attack on an employee, through which they managed to steal the employee’s password.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Serious security flaw in Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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