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Uber headquarters in San Francisco: The car service drove as usual on Thursday
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The mobility service provider Uber has apparently been hacked.
On Friday night, the company announced on Twitter that it was investigating an incident in the area of cyber security and had contacted the law enforcement authorities.
The "New York Times" reports on the incident that a hacker penetrated Uber's network, after which the company took several of its internal systems offline.
Among other things, the Slack communication platform used by Uber was affected.
Using an account that was taken over, the hacker is said to have sent a message to Uber employees: "I announce that I am a hacker and that Uber has suffered a data breach." Elsewhere in Uber's systems, the attacker is said to have later posted a pornographic photo to have.
Sam Curry is the IT Security Officer for Yuga Labs, the company behind the NFT series Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Curry said he was in contact with the intruder and was presented with evidence that he was gaining access to critical systems of the ride-hailing service.
"It looks like a lot of things have been compromised," Curry said.
It is also about full access to the cloud environments hosted by Amazon and Google, in which Uber stores its source code and customer data.
Issued as an employee of the company IT
The hacker told the New York Times more about his actions.
According to him, he sent a text message to an Uber employee posing as a company IT employee.
In this way, he managed to sneak a password out of the company.
The hacker claims that he is 18 years old.
The hack apparently had no consequences for Uber's vehicle fleet, which travels to many cities around the world.
On Thursday, this part of Uber's operations continued without restrictions.
Uber might get away with a scare too.
Sam Curry said he had no indication the hacker had done any damage or that he was interested in anything other than publicity.
His gut told him the intruder was more concerned with "getting as much attention as possible," according to Curry.
Possibly "a child" is having the "time of his life".
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