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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."
We should distinguish here between Russia (the Russian government) and people who live in Russia (Russian citizens, etc). The news media isn't always very clear on that distinction. It's a way to confuse people: "this IP address was in Russia! What does Putin know about it?"
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Would not an "Uber Hacker" be German?
Putin not need Uber. Putin capture bear for ride to work.
#DeleteChrome
distract from the heinous fact that Uber hid that they had been cracked from their customers AND in contravention of all sorts of laws.
Thank you for your attempts at humor, Alabama child molester apologists. Golf clap.
-The liberals
Uber hackers sold your accounts to Russians.
Putin not need Uber. Putin take off shirt and attract Cossack pony for ride to work!
You know it really gets a whole lot messier than that. When governments decided to play with contractors in computer douche baggery, those contractors started to, well, go direct. You could quite readily imagine US contractors stealing that data and partnering with Russia contractors to turn that data in profit via fraud. They don't give a fuck about anyone, whether their actions kill or not, they only serve themselves and greed and idiot governments empowered them whether US or Russian or Chinese, apparently the three biggest players. Triple agents in the computer douche baggery field would not be suprising and the EU and UK and now working to add to the fucking mess.
Instead of securing computer system across the glove government fuckwit dead dog dick sucking morons have made it worse for the rest of us, by playing idiot games with corrupt contractors. Some of those attacks are designed to take out competitors, some are designed to cripple share price, some are for fraud and all of them are bad and largely the biggest fucking moron of all was the US government, well done, be proud of yet another mess you have created. Working to hack everyone, rather than secure everyone.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Uber Hackers may also have been shape shifting albino reptilian humanoids from a planet in the Draco constellation. ref :]