Uber reportedly hacked by teen; company says it is investigating the data breach

Uber suffered a data breach recently, the ride-hailing company has confirmed. The company has said that it has alerted the law-enforcement authorities about the breach and is investigating it. The hack is said to have forced the company to make several internal communications and engineering systems go offline.

The breach led to the compromise of several Uber’s internal systems, it is said. According to the New York Times, the person involved in this hack, allegedly claims to be an 18-year-old who later sent images on email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers. He has told The Post that he had hacked Uber for fun and was considering leaking the company source code.