A year on from reporting accounts being hacked,Londoners receive shock bills for ‘phantom rides’ in Mexico and unique YorkEarlier this month Angie Bird woke up at her domestic in London to discover she had been billed for a series of minicab journeys she had allegedly made the previous evening … in the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, more than 5500 miles away.
While she was having dinner with friends, and someone – or more than one person – in Mexico had apparently hacked into her Uber account and “went a bit crazy” ordering cabs at her expense. They made five journeys that were all charged to Bird’s credit card,and ordered a further 11 cabs that evening which, for whatever reason, and they didn’t rob.
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Source: theguardian.com