Uber is hiring for over 80 cybersecurity jobs after being hacked last week

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Uber has posted round 80 jobs in its US safety division (Image: Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Picture)

In the event you’re a cybersecurity engineer you may have the ability to swing a job at Uber as the corporate steps up its cybersecurity sport after final week’s hack.

On Monday, the ride-hailing app mentioned that a hacker affiliated with the Lapsus$ hacking group was chargeable for a cyber assault that pressured the corporate to close a number of inside communications briefly final week.

Recent from the embarrassing safety breach, Uber is hiring for plenty of cybersecurity jobs.

Simply this week, Uber has posted round 80 jobs in its US safety division. 

‘The first goal for Uber Engineering Safety staff is to allow the technical ambitions of the corporate whereas sustaining the best requirements of safety and privateness for our prospects and companions,’ reads the job description.

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The roles appear to be based totally within the US throughout New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and a few of them even having the choice to work remotely.

It’s a profitable job as nicely with a Senior Menace Detection Engineer set to make roughly £90,820 – £140,200, in line with Glassdoor.

Glassdoor additionally added that a Senior Safety Engineer at Uber’s whole pay could possibly be roughly $212,137 (£187,203).

Along with its engineering staff, the corporate can be hiring safety specialists on its authorized, design and safety response and investigations groups.

Uber’s safety staff is chargeable for guaranteeing the safety of all non-public, private, location, and cost info for Uber’s full set of customers together with ‘riders, drivers, prospects, third events, and firms’.

After final week’s hack, the corporate mentioned that the attacker had not accessed any person accounts and the databases that retailer delicate person info equivalent to bank card numbers, checking account or journey particulars.

‘The attacker accessed a number of inside programs, and our investigation has targeted on figuring out whether or not there was any materials affect,’ mentioned Uber, including that investigation was nonetheless ongoing.

The corporate mentioned it was coordinating carefully with the FBI and the US Division of Justice on the matter.

On Thursday, the journey hailing app mentioned that it was investigating a cybersecurity incident, after a report that its community was breached and the corporate needed to shut a number of inside communications and engineering programs.

An worker’s Slack was utilized by the hacker to achieve entry which they then used to ship a message to Uber workers saying that the corporate had suffered an information breach, in line with a New York Instances report on Thursday.

‘I announce I'm a hacker and Uber has suffered an information breach,’ the message learn, and went on to record a number of inside databases that have been claimed to be compromised, the report added.

Uber workers have been instructed to not use Slack and different inside programs have been have been inaccessible as nicely.

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