In the article “Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems” by Kate Conger and Kevin Roose, it states that the issue occurred in Uber on September 15, 2022. The FBI had to get involved when a major data breach occurred at Uber when an anonymous hacker gained access to everything inside of Uber’s information systems and network. Hacker who claimed himself as 18 years old had almost full access to the Uber system. His attack technique was so called “social engineering”, which persuaded the workers to give their passwords. He pretended to be a corporate information technology person. These types of social engineering attacks targeting a foothold within tech companies are increasing. In this case, little no harm was done, but it was still a major breakdown in protecting internal systems and data. However, this was not the first time that Uber has been hacked. In the year of 2016, about 57 million drivers and riders account were hacked and wanted $100,000 to delete their copy of the data.
Increasing risk of cyber attacks are making our private information to be exposed to anyone which might include hackers who tend to use the data to make a profit or threaten people. In many countries all around the world, they define these kinds of action as terror and take it as a serious problem. Cyber attacks not only threaten individuals or organizations but also the government itself, many governments try to develop their security technology. Cyber attack not only achieves its goal by social engineering techniques but can be done by visual attack, malware attack, phishing, denial of service, SQL injection attack, etc.
To prevent these kinds of cyber attack there are some ways to secure its data from being hacked. It includes employee training, multi-factor authentication, use of encryption, and updating regular software and patches. What do you have in mind in order to achieve secure in your system?