The Uber hacker, who reportedly claims to be 18 years old, says they had breached the company for fun and might leak its source code “in a few months” (Washington Post)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Security engineer says Uber hacker had access to its HackerOne bug bounty program; source: the hacker downloaded all vulnerability reports before losing access  —  Uber suffered a cyberattack Thursday afternoon with a hacker gaining access to vulnerability reports and sharing screenshots …

New York Times:
Uber is investigating a breach of its computer systems, saying a hacker compromised a worker’s Slack account and also gained access to other internal systems  —  The company said on Thursday that it was looking into the scope of the apparent hack.  —  Uber’s computer network was breached on Thursday …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company’s systems were not hacked  —  A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Yandex says a former employee is responsible for the leak of a 44.7GB source code repository on a hacking forum and that the company’s systems were not hacked  —  A Yandex source code repository allegedly stolen by a former employee of the Russian technology company has been leaked as a Torrent on a popular hacking forum.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Over 90 gameplay videos from Rockstar’s GTA VI leak online; the uploader claims they were behind last week’s Uber hack and have GTA V and VI source code  —  Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, appears to have leaked online.

Uber Newsroom:
On last week’s hack, Uber says a contractor’s account was breached, hackers are likely linked to Lapsus$, and exposed HackerOne bug reports have been remediated  —  While our investigation is still ongoing, we are providing an update on our response to last week’s security incident.  —  What happened?