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What Caused the Uber Data Breach? | UpGuard

The https://www.upguard.com/security-report/uber data breach began with the purchase of stolen credentials belonging to an Uber employee from a dark web marketplace. The hacker kept trying to log in to purposely send a flood of irritating MFA notifications to the Uber employee’s phone.

Several critical cybersecurity lessons can be learned from the Uber data breach.

If the Uber hacker stole customer data and didn’t reveal the breach to the company, the stolen data would have likely ended up on a dark web marketplace and viewed multiple times by cybercriminals before Uber even realized it was breached. It’s crucial for organizations to have a safety net in place for detecting dark web data leaks from undetected data breaches, from both first-hand and third-party attacks.