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Re:Money can be stolen from an Uber account by mkolodny on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:22PM (#14545966)
The title of this article isn't accurate. Personally I think it's just meant to scare people.

Money can't be "stolen" from your Uber account.

Someone can find out your password to your Uber account the same way they could get your password for any website. Then they log in as you, and take trips using your account. Your card would then be charged for the trips.

It's OP's fault that someone found out their password. Uber was nice and refunded them for the trips.

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Re:Money can be stolen from an Uber account by Bartweiss on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:42PM (#14546150)
> Then they log in as you

Except the account in the article had two factor auth enabled. Someone triggered the second factor (a text message) then logged in without access to it. That's the question at the heart of "how did this attack happen?"

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Re:Money can be stolen from an Uber account by URSpider94 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:47AM (#14552637)
We do not know that the attacker did not have access to the TFA code. That's an assumption. For all we know, it was the customer's roommate reading the SMS off his phone and sharing it to the pirates.

It is certainly possible that Uber's TFA system is compromised, but that's not the only explanation.

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