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I bet Uber was hacked long before 2016 as 1k was stolen from my Uber account in May 2014. It was supposedly for a ride in London while Im in DC. When this hap

I bet Uber was hacked long before 2016 as 1k was stolen from my Uber account in May 2014. It was supposedly for a ride in London while Im in DC. When this happened I searched Twitter and saw ten to 20 ppl a day complaining of the same thing. Uber's PR response at the time was it's the users fault for not choosing a complicated password vs. owning up there's a problem and or being concerned for their customers. What a great company!

asabjorn 9y ago
In the disclosure it says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. It did not contain any passwords or social security numbers, so your passwords must have been compromised in some other way if your Uber account was compromised.
- paul7986 9y ago
  Whose disclosures? Uber's ... lmao Can we trust anything they say? I just know my account was hacked in 2014.. money stolen from me and then seeing tons of others suffering the same fate. All the while the company who let it happen laughing at it's users... blaming them.
Johnny555 9y ago
Did you have a secure, complex password on your account that wasn't shared with any other accounts? How was the money stolen? Is there some way to transfer money or vouchers from Uber to someone else?
- simcop2387 9y ago
  Driver rides with another phone and the hacked account, racks up an expensive drive and gets paid for it. Not sure how easy that'd be to do without getting caught though.
nikcub 9y ago
You can go onto underground markets and forums today and buy hundreds to thousands of Uber accounts. They're obtained via endpoint malware and shared passwords. Buying and selling Netflix, porn and Uber accounts in this way is a very common and popular If you're account was affected it's a very good chance it was via this method rather than a broader Uber breach
- paul7986 9y ago
  Oh Uber was hacked in 2014 per this article https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/21/uber-hack-exposes-data-of-57-million-users-and-drivers-report-says.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/21/ube... Scroll to the middle of the article.

asabjorn 9y ago

In the disclosure it says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. It did not contain any passwords or social security numbers, so your passwords must have been compromised in some other way if your Uber account was compromised.

paul7986 9y ago
Whose disclosures? Uber's ... lmao Can we trust anything they say? I just know my account was hacked in 2014.. money stolen from me and then seeing tons of others suffering the same fate. All the while the company who let it happen laughing at it's users... blaming them.

Johnny555 9y ago

Did you have a secure, complex password on your account that wasn't shared with any other accounts? How was the money stolen? Is there some way to transfer money or vouchers from Uber to someone else?

simcop2387 9y ago
Driver rides with another phone and the hacked account, racks up an expensive drive and gets paid for it. Not sure how easy that'd be to do without getting caught though.

nikcub 9y ago

You can go onto underground markets and forums today and buy hundreds to thousands of Uber accounts. They're obtained via endpoint malware and shared passwords. Buying and selling Netflix, porn and Uber accounts in this way is a very common and popular If you're account was affected it's a very good chance it was via this method rather than a broader Uber breach

paul7986 9y ago
Oh Uber was hacked in 2014 per this article https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/21/uber-hack-exposes-data-of-57-million-users-and-drivers-report-says.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/21/ube... Scroll to the middle of the article.