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Uber confirmed on Thursday that it's responding to a cybersecurity incident after reports

claimed a hacker had breached its internal network.

The Righthailing Giant discovered the breach on Thursday

and has taken several of its internal communications and engineering systems offline

while it investigates the incident, according to a report by the New York

Times which broke news of the breach.

Uber said in a statement given to Tech Crunch that it's investigating a cybersecurity incident

and is in contact with law enforcement officials,

but decline to answer additional questions.

The sole hacker behind the breach who claims to be 18 years old told the times that he compromised Uber because the company had weak security.

The attacker reportedly used social engineering to compromise an employee's Slack account, persuading

them to hand over a password that allowed them access to Uber's systems.

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