Fai mai Uber o loʻo tali atu i le 'Cybersecurity Incident' ina ua maeʻa tuʻuaʻia faʻafefe o faʻamaumauga i totonu.

The breach was first revealed in an internal message to Uber employees on the messaging platform Slack, where an unknown account wrote “I am a hacker and uber has suffered a data breach.”

The alleged hacker has shared images of “email, cloud storage and code repositories” ma le Times Niu Ioka and some cybersecurity researchers.

A screenshot of the purported hacker’s message on Slack appears to have initially been seen as a joke, with Uber’s employees reacting with a series of emojis according to a screenshot shared by the online malware database VX-Underground.

E tusa ai ma le Times, Uber employees have been asked to stop using Slack while other internal communication channels also appear to be shut.

Sam Curry, a security engineer at Yuga Labs and one of the people contacted by the alleged hacker, fai screenshots appear to show that Uber’s databases hosted on Amazon and Google’s cloud services appear to have been “completely compromised.”

The hacker allegedly gained access to Uber’s internal systems by using a method known as social engineering where they masqueraded as a company IT person and convinced an employee to share their login credentials, the Times faaopoopo le lipoti.