Thousands of Uber customers are believed to have had their accounts hacked by Russians after users of the app reported being billed in roubles for taxi journeys they had not taken in Moscow and St Petersburg.
More than 800 people in Britain and the United States have complained on Twitter that their accounts were taken over in the past year, The Times found, with the number of reports spiking in April and May. Experts said this number of Twitter reports suggested that the true figure would be much higher.
On Tuesday Uber revealed that the data of 57 million customers had been exposed in a hack in October last year. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has begun an investigation and said it had “huge concerns”