The Breach Files — Episode 2: "The Intern"

He was eighteen years old. He had a laptop, a phone, and one phone call to make. In September 2022, a teenager known online as Teapot walked through the front door of Uber — not by breaking any encryption, not by exploiting a zero-day, but by calling a contractor at two in the morning and asking politely. What he found inside was worse than the entry. A PowerShell script on a network share. Hardcoded admin credentials sitting in plain text. An open path to AWS, Google Cloud, Slack, and Uber's entire vulnerability disclosure history. Then he announced himself on Uber's own Slack channel. Thirty-four employees reacted with a laughing emoji. They thought it was a joke. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized.Support the show