Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach

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Uber Freight reportedly investigating after hacking group claims data breach

Zack Whittaker

10:15 AM PDT · August 12, 2026

A hacking and extortion gang has taken credit for a cyberattack and data breach at Uber Freight, the ridesharing giant’s logistics subsidiary.

A spokesperson for Uber Freight told Reuters , which first reported the incident, that there was no effect on its business operations and that its systems were running normally. (The company did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s questions about the incident.)

The shipping company is the latest victim in a spate of hacks in recent weeks conducted by the Helix hacking group, which has targeted transportation companies, financial giants, and private equity firms throughout the year. The hackers are known for targeting companies and exfiltrating large amounts of data from their cloud environments, which they then threaten to publish if the victim companies do not pay a ransom.

In a post on its data leak site, which it uses to host the stolen files, the Helix hackers claim to have taken mailboxes, cloud storage drives, files relating to accounts payable, and dispatch documents from Uber Freight.

Some of the files seen by TechCrunch appear to show email correspondence between Uber Freight and several of its customers. TechCrunch could not immediately verify the authenticity of the files, which appeared to be dated around mid-June.

Uber Freight has not yet said if it received any correspondence from the hackers, or if it paid the hackers a ransom.

Google said earlier this week that the Helix hacking group is part of a wider umbrella collective of hackers that it tracks as UNC6671. The gang relies on social engineering tactics, such as voice phishing, a tactic that involves calling IT helpdesks and requesting the reset of employee passwords. Security researchers have long warned that these attacks, while crude and rudimentary, are highly effective at tricking humans into granting access to sensitive systems.

In its blog post, Google said a review of the gang’s bitcoin wallets shows it has made at least $10.6 million in ransom payments between January and May this year.

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