Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, September 16th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Uber is investigating a breach of its systems that has caused it to take some of its most important systems offline.

The White House has finally delivered on that big comprehensive framework for crypto regulation.

How did Amazon do with its NFL broadcast last night and of course the

weekend long read suggestions? Here's what you missed today in the world of

Tech. Two big stories this morning. First up, Uber has taken down some of its

internal communication and engineering systems, taking them fully offline as

it investigates a breach of its overall systems.

Uber's stock opened down more than 5% this morning on the news,

quoting the New York Times.

The breach appeared to have compromised many of Uber's internal systems and a person claiming responsibility for the hacks sent images of email, cloud storage, and code repositories to Cybersecurity Researchers and the New York Times.

They pretty much have full access to Uber,

said Sam Curry, a security engineer at Uga Labs,

who corresponded with the person who claimed

to be responsible for the breach.

This is a total compromise from what it looks like."

An Uber spokesman said the company was investigating the breach and contacting law enforcement

officials. Uber employees were instructed not to use the company's internal messaging service

Slack and found that other internal systems were inaccessible said to employees who

were not authorized to speak publicly. Shortly before the Slack system was taken offline on Thursday afternoon

Uber employees received a message that read quote I announce I am a hacker and

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