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Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk)
Mark Bridge, reporting for The Times: Thousands of Uber customers are believed to have had their accounts hacked by Russians after users of the app (Editor's note: the link is paywalled; alternative source) reported being billed in roubles for taxi journeys they had not taken in Moscow and St Petersburg. More than 800 people in Britain and the United States have complained on Twitter that their accounts were taken over in the past year, The Times found, with the number of reports spiking in April and May. Experts said this number of Twitter reports suggested that the true figure would be much higher.
Thousands of Uber customers are believed to have had their accounts hacked by Russians after users of the app reported being billed in roubles for taxi journeys they had not taken in Moscow and St Petersburg.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
And once again , lets point the finger to Russia. Why not... Who else are we going to blame
they are victum too
Uber apps hack you!
Uber hails YOU!
Would not an "Uber Hacker" be German?
Russians! Dey did it
distract from the heinous fact that Uber hid that they had been cracked from their customers AND in contravention of all sorts of laws.
why are users reporting this and why wasn't this caught by uber them selves. In the grand scheme of things the credit card companies have solved this problem by using algorithms to flag purchases from locations which would be outside typical spending parameters.
i mean would it not be obvious to Uber that the account is hailing a ride in Russia while the main account holders phone is in the US?
also from a hackers stand point this seems fishy as the payments would be to other Uber accounts in Russia which would be traceable anyways. this seems like a problem that should have never been a problem in the first place and thus rather suspicious.
when will the l33t E5k1m0s base belong to us crew start getting some respect huh?
Eric, your mother's calling, time for dinner.
Yes this is what happens when the 1984 Denver Broncos all fuck your mom.
I highly suspect it was Russians.
I got this from a highly placed source in government who sold me a Dossier that told me so.
Got it cheap to...like 15 Million.
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Itâ(TM)s really not funny any more. Every fucking hack is Russia now? Give me a break.
Thank you for your attempts at humor, Alabama child molester apologists. Golf clap.
-The liberals
They are even worse than those Russians! Gawd bless the good guys that keep us safe from them!
Uber hackers sold your accounts to Russians.
The Russians have hacked __everyone__
Not even remotely surprised.
Hits snooze button once more.
Liberal hackers are almost all white-hats. They also ride white horses, and fight for social justice.
If they also suck, that's because they're liberal! There is more than just one act, more than just one position.
Yup this is what I do now when I read the news.
Uber Hackers may also have been shape shifting albino reptilian humanoids from a planet in the Draco constellation. ref :]
Would not an "Uber Hacker" be German?
That would be "ein Ueberhacker" (on keyboards which do not include an Ü)
for anything and everything that happens.
>> Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian
That's just like saying 'Uber Hackers May Have Not Been Russian'.
Iran is helping Russian hackers to hack UBER. Iran is responsible for all these cyber attacks.
tHateful anti-Russian conspiracy theories like this need to be censored. ae911truth dot org
Millions of Russians died in WW2 so Democrats could make fake news like this. ae911truth dot org
These days it seems absolutely stupid for a non-Russian hacker to do anything without leaving a "Russian trace". If media is any indication, a few cyriilc messages or transactions in roubles would make any American hacker safe.
See subject Brockmire (quagmire): Your illiterate ass tried blaming me for something I don't & won't do https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11396521&cid=55617373/ & you PROJECT you probably do! I wouldn't doubt it in your case actually.
* Hilarious part was I proved you had to EAT YOUR WORDS vs. me, lol!
(I've literally got DOZENS more like the link posted in the link above on you specifically - I love it when you try your usual bs only to get SHOT DOWN easily by "yours truly"!)
APK
P.S.=> As far as THINKING? Don't even TRY "QuagMire" (lol) - it's not a strong suit of yours. Me? I have the right to think (& invent too) but I don't think the Russians give a flying F one way or another though - they're busy w/ their own affairs... apk
As someone hijacked my Uber account not too long ago and set the email to a mail.ua address, set the phone number to a +7 (Russian) number, and the account location to Russia. I only got back in because they hadn't managed to yet unlink from my Facebook account (so I still had a way in to stop them.)