Security News > 2022 > September > Massive Data Breach at Uber
The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber's internal systems, and a person claiming responsibility for the hack sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York Times.
"They pretty much have full access to Uber," said Sam Curry, a security engineer at Yuga Labs who corresponded with the person who claimed to be responsible for the breach.
It looks like a pretty basic phishing attack; someone gave the hacker their login credentials.
Because Uber has lousy internal security, lots of people have access to everything.
So once a hacker gains a foothold, they have access to everything.
This is the same thing that Mudge accuses Twitter of: too many employees have broad access within the company's network.
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