{"id":52594,"date":"2022-09-21T06:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52594"},"modified":"2022-09-21T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T17:54:34","slug":"hacking-group-lapsus-blamed-for-uber-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52594","title":{"rendered":"Hacking group Lapsus$ blamed for Uber breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29115249.6112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvY3liZXJzZWN1cml0eS8zNjUyMDYxLXViZXItYmxhbWVzLWhhY2tpbmctZ3JvdXAtbGFwc3VzLWZvci1kYXRhLWJyZWFjaC8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBfcd45bf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" 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href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29115249.6112\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudWJlci5jb20vbmV3c3Jvb20vc2VjdXJpdHktdXBkYXRlP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBad84bb0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29115249.6112\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudWJlci5jb20vbmV3c3Jvb20vc2VjdXJpdHktdXBkYXRlP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBad84bb0e&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1663798690167000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1d63S7qCebzZCva5EiMNYh\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0that it is still investigating the breach and is also coordinating with the FBI, the Department of Justice and several leading digital forensics firms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe believe that this attacker (or attackers) are affiliated with a hacking group called Lapsus$, which has been increasingly active over the last year or so,\u201d the company said.<\/li>\n<li>Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29115249.6112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNjQ2MTEyLXViZXItaW52ZXN0aWdhdGluZy1wb3NzaWJsZS1uZXR3b3JrLWJyZWFjaC1hZnRlci1oYWNrZXItdGF1bnRzLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBa1497ba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29115249.6112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNjQ2MTEyLXViZXItaW52ZXN0aWdhdGluZy1wb3NzaWJsZS1uZXR3b3JrLWJyZWFjaC1hZnRlci1oYWNrZXItdGF1bnRzLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBa1497ba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1663798690167000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0d_GpTP4Yfc_qqJYCB_rQO\">an 18-year-old hacker\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0to have broken into Uber\u2019s network.<\/li>\n<li>The hacker told The New York Times, which first reported the breach, that he gained access to the company\u2019s internal systems by posing as a corporate information technology person and convincing an employee to share a password with him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lapsus$ has been linked to\u00a0<a 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data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29115249.6112\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvY3liZXJzZWN1cml0eS81OTk0MTgtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWNvbmZpcm1zLWJyZWFjaC1ieS1sYXBzdXMtaGFja2VyLWdyb3VwLz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBf1cf7164&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1663798690167000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3wWVvqPEziCLTLFUZ202z5\">several data breaches<\/a>\u00a0this year targeting tech companies including Microsoft, Samsung, Cisco and Okta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber has\u00a0blamed Lapsus$, a South American&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52595,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52594\/revisions\/52595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}