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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Re:Blame Russia once again by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?"

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  2. Russian? by nuckfuts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would not an "Uber Hacker" be German?

  3. Re:Blame Russia once again by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Putin not need Uber. Putin capture bear for ride to work.

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  4. Let not who cracked Uber ... by Alain+Williams · · Score: 4, Insightful

    distract from the heinous fact that Uber hid that they had been cracked from their customers AND in contravention of all sorts of laws.

    1. Re: Let not who cracked Uber ... by Aighearach · · 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.

  5. Re:The evidence by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    But... that could mean Idaho and Florida! :-P

    Idaho is known for their mean Potato Hackers.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."