{"id":145476,"date":"2022-09-02T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-hacker-attacked-yandex-taxi-and-sent-dozens-of-cars-to-the-same-location"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:22:40","slug":"a-hacker-attacked-yandex-taxi-and-sent-dozens-of-cars-to-the-same-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-hacker-attacked-yandex-taxi-and-sent-dozens-of-cars-to-the-same-location","title":{"rendered":"A hacker attacked Yandex Taxi and sent dozens of cars to the same location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-hacker-attacked-yandex-taxi-and-sent-dozens-of-cars-to-the-same-location2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hack created a massive traffic jam in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers working for Yandex Taxi, the largest taxi service in Moscow, did not have a good day on Thursday as hackers messed with the company\u2019s app and sent dozens of cars to the same location resulting in a traffic jam that lasted up to three hours, according to Twitter reports.<\/p>\n<p>A co-founder sanctioned for propaganda.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>KrimKate\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles were all sent to the Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major avenue in Moscow that is the location for the \u2018Hotel Ukraina\u2019 or Hotel Ukraine. It has not yet become clear whether the hack was a protest in favor of Ukraine or whether other reasons were behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hack created a massive traffic jam in Moscow. Drivers working for Yandex Taxi, the largest taxi service in Moscow, did not have a good day on Thursday as hackers messed with the company\u2019s app and sent dozens of cars to the same location resulting in a traffic jam that lasted up to three hours, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}