On: Uber investigating breach of its computer systems

[bombcar]

In the old days you’d have physical restrictions on access to the datacenter - in a major breach you’d get there physically and shut it down and disconnect it.

With everything cloud now, how do you recover your cloud account of the master got compromised?

[zmgsabst → bombcar]

For someone Uber’s size, you call your AWS rep and co-ordinate with AWS security.

[mrsalt → zmgsabst]

Could the CTO or some other employee go to Amazon's office to do something like this? I genuinely wonder.

[Griffinsauce → zmgsabst]

How do they verify your identity?

[fjfbsufhdvfy → bombcar]

That's the fun part, you don't!