Uber Say It’s Responding To ‘Cybersecurity Incident’ After Alleged Hack Of Internal Databases
ForbesAPR 2022
The timing of this hack — which comes as Uber's former security chief is on trial for his disastrous response to the 2016 breach — is ironic. It also reveals that Uber, which has a responsibility to educate its employees on social engineering threats, continues to prove careless with the safety of its data.
A social engineering hack relies on human error rather than vulnerabilities in systems, which is what makes it a particularly dangerous threat that no company is immune to. Rather than jumping to conclusions and playing the blame-game, this should serve as a warning to all of us.