More Uber Accounts Have Been Hacked, This Time in the United States
UPDATE: An Uber spokesperson responds, "We do not have any additional information to share beyond the statement we provided before: We investigated and found no evidence of a breach. Attempting to fraudulently access or sell accounts is illegal and we notified the authorities about this report. This is 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."
Back in March, Motherboard revealed that fully functioning Uber accounts were for sale on the dark web for as cheap as $1 each. At the time, it appeared that the victims of those hacks were based in the United Kingdom. Now, Uber customers from all over the United States have taken to Twitter to complain that their account has been charged for trips they never took, sometimes half way across the world.
“It was crazy,” one apparent victim, Stephanie Crisco from North Carolina, told me over Twitter direct message. “I used Uber for the first time Thursday night. On Friday morning I received a notification on my phone that my driver was en route. I didn’t request a driver. I clicked on the notification and it said that the ride was cancelled but the pickup was in London.”Crisco also tweeted a picture of the trips she claims she didn’t make. While many of the trips in the screenshot were cancelled, one of them in London was indeed successful, and Crisco told me that three charges were made against her account in total. Crisco has since cancelled her bank card, and Uber have refunded her for the three charges, which range between $40 and $120 each...MORE
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