Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on Thursday November 23, 2017 @07:00AM from the tussle-continues dept.

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.

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Re:May have been liberals by Anonymous Coward · 2017-11-23 08:47 · Score: 2, Informative

Thank you for your attempts at humor, Alabama child molester apologists. Golf clap.
-The liberals
Re: Let not who cracked Uber ... by Aighearach · 2017-11-23 10:52 · Score: 3, Informative

No, actually, not everybody are criminals, and not every country is equally criminal.
Nor do multiple wrongs add to a right.
Nor does "somebody else might have done something else that was also a little bit bad" ever add up to an excuse. It just makes you look like a shill.