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15 August 2026

A phone call, a million files: Uber Freight breach exposes logistics’ identity security gap

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Source reporting: The Loadstar

A phone call, a million files: Uber Freight breach exposes logistics’ identity security gap

In a nutshell: the Helix extortion group claims to have taken nearly a million documents from one of North America’s largest managed-transportation platforms, using tactics no more sophisticated than impersonating an IT helpdesk. It is a grim irony that a company built on digitizing freight brokerage may have been compromised by one of the oldest tricks in cybercrime: a phone call. Uber Freight confirmed on August 12 that it is investigating “a ... The post A phone call, a million files: Uber Freight breach exposes logistics’ identity security gap appeared first on The Loadstar .

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