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.

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My Toaster broke this morning.

[hackus]

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.