Uber Freight investigates cyber incident after hackers claim million-file leak

Uber Freight is investigating a data-security incident involving unauthorised access to part of its systems, the company said on Tuesday, five days after a hacking group claimed to have posted around a million of its files online.

In a statement attributed to spokesperson Sam Hallock, the company said there had been “no impact to Uber Freight’s business operations, which continue in the normal course without disruption” and that “our systems are secure and fully operational”.

Hallock said the incident had been “identified, contained and remediated”, and that the company had “promptly engaged federal law enforcement”.

Moreover, Hallock declined to confirm whether the posted data was authentic, or to say when the hackers first made contact. Uber Freight has neither confirmed nor disputed the claim that a million files were taken.

The claim was posted on 6 August by a group calling itself Helix, one of four aliases, along...

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