Uber says ‘no evidence’ user accounts were compromised in hack

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Uber says there is no evidence" that any of its users' private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems discovered Thursday. All of the company's products, including its ride-hail and Uber Eats food delivery services, are currently operational," and law enforcement has been notified, Uber said in a statement this afternoon.

The hack forced the company to take several of its internal systems offline, including Slack, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. Uber is continuing to investigate how a hacker, who claims to be an 18-year-old, was able to gain administrator access to the company's internal tools.

Those internal software tools were taken offline yesterday afternoon as a precaution" and...

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