Hackers break into popular taxi hailing app in Russia and send dozens of vehicles to the same location in Moscow, leading to biblical traffic jam and wasted resources – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

Hackers break into popular taxi hailing app in Russia and send dozens of vehicles to the same location in Moscow, leading to biblical traffic jam and wasted resources




Hackers broke into a popular Russian taxi-hailing app and sent dozens of vehicles to the same location in Moscow, leading to a biblical traffic jam and wasted resources.

Yandex Taxi was easily hacked by a team of international operatives who were able to direct dozens upon dozens of taxi drivers to the same place: Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major thoroughfare in Moscow, and the site of Hotel Ukraine.

The traffic jam took hours to clear. Probably wasn’t a great day for motorists in the Russian capital today.

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