{"id":3226,"date":"2015-10-02T07:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2015-10-01T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T20:29:02","slug":"what-the-uber-uber-gets-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/02\/what-the-uber-uber-gets-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Uber?! Uber Gets Hacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2933\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"wtu3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1055\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33.jpg 1055w, https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wtu33-1024x472.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1055px) 100vw, 1055px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy What The Uber Friday! We are used to hearing about Ubers impending court cases and underhanded fights with taxi companies, but recently there have been rumblings that Uber may be facing even bigger problems than their constant battles with the legal system. Lately, a few sources have started reporting that the multi billion dollar tech giant is being hacked for its Uber account information.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Washington Times, cybercriminals are now selling compromised accounts on the dark web and various Uber users are getting charged for rides they never ordered. Unfortunately, the number of compromised accounts is only growing and the number of fraud cases that have been reported now amounts to roughly 3 percent of all Uber rider\u2019s accounts, according to The Register. Motherboard has also recently reported that the price being paid for these hacked accounts on underground marketplaces has dropped from $1 an account to only 40 cents as of August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Uber did release a statement saying, \u201cOur security teams are laser focused on protecting the integrity of our community\u2019s Uber accounts, we use technical measures to detect any issues and are always enhancing the measures we deploy to protect our users\u2019 accounts. We also encourage all of our users to choose strong and unique usernames and passwords and to avoid reusing the same credentials across multiple sites and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Has your Uber account ever been compromised? Tell us your stories below!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have a What The Uber moment or want to share a What The Uber story please email <a href=\"mailto:wtu@taxifarefinder.com\">wtu@taxifarefinder.com<\/a>\u00a0or use the hashtag #WhatTheUber to get your story featured and shared on our social media!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy What The Uber Friday! We are used to hearing about Ubers impending court cases and underhanded fights with taxi companies, but recently there have been rumblings that Uber may be facing even bigger problems than their constant battles with the legal system. Lately, a few sources have started reporting that the multi billion dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115],"tags":[210,10,12,359,362,361,363,360,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3231,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}