I've been Ubered - have you?

Russinating · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:07

Don't know why there's so much hate for Uber. It's exactly the same as any other private taxi firm except there's an app instead of a useless call handler.

Shame about the scam but as said it's phishing and the fact it's Uber is largely irrelevant.

Kenai · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:10

muon said:
No breach on Uber's part.

Apart from the breach where they admitted to 50,000 drivers details being comprised you mean? Having kept it secret for nearly 6 months.

If they have had security breaches of user data, they'd be the last company I'd trust to admit to it straight up.

muon · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:14

Kenai said:
Apart from the breach where they admitted to 50,000 drivers details being comprised you mean? Having kept it secret for nearly 6 months.

If they have had security breaches of user data, they'd be the last company I'd trust to admit to it straight up.

If they hadn't mentioned it, you wouldn't have even known about that. They weren't "admitting" to anything. They were just revealing a security vulnerability as part of their process.

The fact that they themselves revealed this should put your mind at ease. If a customer breach had occurred, it sounds like they would tell everyone.

No evidence it was due to fraud or complaints that they found the vulnerability.

Janesy B · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:16

muon said:
They are not probably lying.

They have in the past.

It was a unique password.

Russinating said:
Shame about the scam but as said it's phishing and the fact it's Uber is largely irrelevant.

Apart form the fact I told them about the fraud and they still allowed a journey to complete and bill me for it of course.

muon · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:16

Janesy B said:
They have in the past.

It was a unique password.

Where have they lied about data security?

areksnumbr1sxylady · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:18

At least in Chicago, Uber is far more enjoyable experience than taxi`s.

Kenai · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:18

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one then, I've seen enough about it online for many months now for me to be sufficiently convinced there is more to it than isolated phishing going on

Janesy B · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:21

muon said:
Where have they lied about data security?

The breach mentioned above, not mentioning it for 6 months is deceitful.

There's plenty of reports of fraud and they clearly do little to prevent it. Not sure why you're so keen to defend them.

muon · 19 Oct 2015 at 22:24

Janesy B said:
The breach mentioned above, not mentioning it for 6 months is deceitful.

There's plenty of reports of fraud and they clearly do little to prevent it. Not sure why you're so keen to defend them.

Because you are just throwing baseless accusations?

I don't care the company is uber.