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Uber employee "Lucas" opened the "Slack" application, which the company's employees use to communicate among themselves. He found a message from an unknown person stating: "I declare that I am a hacker, and that Uber is suffering from a data breach."" There was no evidence that the hack involved access to sensitive user data such as their trip histories " but the problem quickly turned out to be more complex than Uber claimed.The idea is that this hacker confirmed that he was working alone and that he was only 18 years old, and bragged about explaining how he carried out the hack, while he was not afraid of the authorities because he lived outside the United States.

Uber employee “Lucas” opened the “Slack” application, which the company’s employees use to communicate among themselves. He found a message from an unknown person stating: “I declare that I am a hacker, and that Uber is suffering from a data breach.” The message also referred to a number of company databases and cloud services that the hacker claimed to have accessed, and concluded his message with the word “uberunderpaisdrives,” meaning that Uber pays a small amount of money to drivers.

“ There was no evidence that the hack involved access to sensitive user data such as their trip histories ” but the problem quickly turned out to be more complex than Uber claimed. Over the next hours, the hacker shared screenshots with several security researchers on Twitter, and those screenshots indicated that Uber’s internal systems may have been severely compromised, even accessing the company’s internal financial data. It appears that anything the hacker did not reach was likely a result of his limited time and not the strength of the company’s security defenses, or the complexity of its data protection systems.

The hacker posted some messages on Hacker One, a corporate vulnerability reporting platform that Uber itself and other companies use to manage reports of security vulnerabilities and reward researchers who discover them. In an interview conducted by the Washington Post with the hacker via the Telegram messaging application, he announced that he hacked Uber “for fun,” that he might leak the company’s source code within a few months, and that Uber’s cybersecurity is “very bad.” The idea is that this hacker confirmed that he was working alone and that he was only 18 years old, and bragged about explaining how he carried out the hack, while he was not afraid of the authorities because he lived outside the United States.