I've been Ubered - have you?

The fact they refunded me so quickly indicates some foul play was detected, not that I'll ever know.

The whole thing is open to abuse, and there's little control over it. I dislike Minicab drivers as it is, often their standard of driving is appalling, they clearly spend too long behind the wheel (I saw one stumble out of their car on Saturday and shuffle down the road half asleep after being stuck behind it for 5 mins while it did 15 mph everywhere and kept braking for no reason) and the fact they like to pee in bottles and leave them on the pavement (I've seen this first hand).

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...b-drivers-urinating-streets-cranford-10197800

I'm sure there's some good ones about, but I've never seen any. The last time I used a Minicab, I picked a local one to take me to the airport and they got lost in a housing estate and I had to direct him to the main road, not to mention the fact he kept taking the apex on any corner/roundabout and nearly caused about 5 collisions.
 
To be fair thousands of people use Uber and have no issues at all, just because you'd had a bad experience doesn't mean it's suddenly a horrendous service.
There will always be people trying to exploit the system.
 
I was under the impression that Uber scamming was happening enough that it had become a 'thing' generally, Janesy is hardly suffering a unique experience here from my understanding.
 
I opened an account for the Christmas party season last year and havent used it since. What should you do if you suddenly get notifications of journeys you haven't booked etc? I want to keep the account but I'm just interested.
 
I thought the same about ebay linking, if someone manages to get onto my ebay, 1 click and they can buy anything they want...not sure on these ease of use options...
 
Kenai said:
I was under the impression that Uber scamming was happening enough that it had become a 'thing' generally, Janesy is hardly suffering a unique experience here from my understanding.
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It's just one of those things which happens if your details get phished.

Paypal accounts, online banking, credit cards etc get compromised all the time.

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I do understand that this is the internet so whatever someone else has done or how negligent Uber were, it's still my fault.
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It is the most likely answer.

If uber servers were breached there would be a massive epidemic of fake journeys.

Imagine if Mastercard or Paypal lost details which allowed the execution of transactions. Do you think fraud would happen in drips and drabs? Do you think evidence would be anecdotal?

If in the next week it turns out there is a major data breach, then I'll take this back.
 
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Uber have been breached, multiple times and there is lots of fake journeys happening, that's why I said Uber scamming is a thing now, it's not just a handful of incidents, it's actually a fairly sizeable problem for them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32900600

A bit of Google time will show all sorts, the FBI even launched an investigation into it in the US as it was such a problem.
 
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Kenai said:
Uber have been breached, multiple times and there is lots of fake journeys happening, that's why I said Uber scamming is a thing now, it's not just a handful of incidents, it's actually a fairly sizeable problem for them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32900600

A bit of Google time will show all sorts, the FBI even launched an investigation into it in the US as it was such a problem.
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This is a password table lookup attack. This is the user's fault. Not Uber's.

No breach on Uber's part.

If you use the same password in multiple places then this will happen if one gets breached. Especially where you use the password on sites which will have much weaker security.

I suggest you read your own article.
 
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Bearing in mind I set the account up last Christmas.

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...nies-security-breach-logins-for-sale-dark-web

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/w...aying-their-uber-accounts-have-bee#.enLrmQ6QZ

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ckers-rack-up-142-uber-journeys-10144655.html

It happens, Uber deny any breach but they're probably lying.
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They are not probably lying.

If there was a breach the numbers involved wouldn't be so low.

It is low because the overlap between same username and same passwords between a breached site and uber is relatively low.

However, because of the large number of overall accounts involved this can still run into the thousands.

Read the opinion of the independent cyber security expert on your guardian link.

"It happens" because of lax precautions taken by people when using the internet.

Even I will admit that I repeat passwords across sites. However, anything that can authorise transactions without an extra password layer from the credit card company will get it's own password.
 
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