Two People have been indicted for hacking the New York taxi trade.
With the assistance of two Russian nationals, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman are accused by the Division of Justice and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey of breaching the John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport taxi dispatch system and promoting slots to cabbies who needed to skip to the top of the road to select up the subsequent airport fare.
New York cabs at JFK airport are required to attend in a holding lot, and line up and decide up the subsequent fare within the order they arrive.
Throughout their intercepted textual content messages with the Russian nationals, Abayev requested the hackers, “I do know that the Pentagon is being hacked, so why cannot we hack the taxi trade?”
The DoJ alleges the 2, over the course of their fraud, used their unauthorized entry to the JFK taxi dispatch to assist as many as a 1,000 taxis a day skip the road.
“As alleged within the indictment, these two defendants — with the assistance of Russian hackers — took the Port Authority for a experience,” US Lawyer Damian Williams mentioned in regards to the indictments. “For years, the defendants’ hacking saved sincere cab drivers from having the ability to decide up fares at JFK within the order wherein they arrived.”
