Uber customers in the United States are the latest victims in a hacking scheme where Uber accounts are sold on the dark web for as little as $1.
The scheme first affected Uber customers in the United Kingdom earlier this year, Motherboard reports, and is now hitting U.S. customers. One user saw several ride requests made for travel in London, even though she lives in North Carolina. After posting the fraudulent attempts to her Twitter account, the transportation network company refunded her bank account for the three trips that did go through, ranging from $40 to $120 per trip; she also cancelled the card associated with her Uber account.
Meanwhile, others who have seen their accounts hacked and sold haven’t been as fortunate to have their money refunded. The TNC’s representatives said the investigation “is now in the hands of the authorities” upon finding no breaches into the company’s systems. They add the hacks were “a good opportunity to remind people to use strong and unique usernames and passwords and to avoid reusing the same credentials across multiple sites and services.”
The publication’s own investigation couldn’t confirm if the fraudulent uses happening to U.S. consumers were the result of Uber accounts being sold on the dark web that affected U.K. customers, nor how those accounts were snagged in the first place.
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Picture caption time (this one begs for it):
1) Uber driver – “Dat a$$…dat a$$…nice scarf in 75 degree weather, douchebag…”
2) Guy – “So, you aren’t wearing panties, right?”
3) Woman – “Veee discuss dees matter after Tiffany’s & deeener, cowboy.”
Right he’s going to a restaurant in clearly warm weather and chose to wear a scarf but not a tie. Idiot. Oh, no belt either.
And either they got out of separate sides of the car, or they both slid out from behind the driver’s side, which is the wrong side.
The article states that people are using stolen Uber accounts in London. Clearly those are two fashionable British hackers who got out of the passenger side of a RHD car.
I don’t think so, because!
http://www.nickwhalesportscarsdirect.co.uk/2008-58-mercedes-s-class-s320-cdi
Long style British plates fill the rear area right up, and you’d be able to see the corner of the plate sticking out past his hand.
This has a small center plate.
He could be wearing suspenders. Or (more likely) the pants have side adjusters.
WOMAN: [heavy Russian accent] That was a lovely ride.
MAN: I’m not paying you to talk.
Her face doesn’t look very Russian. ;)
I agree more Mediterranean but I needed a Russian for the hooker joke.
Royal F-Up. Apologies.
Why is the driver still waiting by the open door, if his passengers are walking away? Or was the guy unhappy that the Uber driver is much better dressed than he is?
He’s trying to get the smell out of his car.
Eau de toilette.
Yeah, the guy dropped some ass as he swished his way out of the back seat.
He’s using the corner of the door to conceal a chubby from view.
He is waiting for a beat up W123 Mercedes full of unshaven Russian nationalists to pull up to the alley and spray the couple with a hail of bullets. He will then recieve a phone call with instructions on what to do with their bodies.
To Russia with Love?
It’s very simple. They’re walking backwards.
Can this get any worse? Yes, it can!
Guy: “You know, in your ad you said you were ‘passable’.
I’m pretty sure you competely fooled the Uber driver!”
Must be getting pretty difficult to write up something in interesting automobile.
This is uninteresting enough for CNN.
So what Uber Tier would a brown Delta 88 put me in?
Probably the no-cars-older-than-20-years-because-we-hate-fun tier.
(I don’t know if Uber has rules on how old your car can be, but I’m certain they have a cutoff somewhere. And my plans of ferrying several dozen passengers around in the grain box of a ’76 Ford L-700 are foiled again!)
They do have a cutoff — and in a year or two it’ll hit the last of the LTCs. I predict mass panic.
Ah yes, fashion models, one of the useless tassels on the corners of society.
Looks like just the ad to appeal to other-directed Millennials.