Rewarded uber Company researchers Indians for $ 5000 after the discovery of a vulnerability in the application of the most popular in the world taxis, which could have been exploited to convert all trips to the free does not require the payment of any sum of money from the user, have been repaired this gap as soon as they operate with ease in any country has the service.
According to the British site discovered "Anand Prakash" researcher security of Bangalore, India, a loophole to evade payment and displayed on HackerOne platform to discover gaps late last year, and then gave the uber Prakash full permission to test the gap in both the United States and India has proved its presence successfully.
Prakash alleged that prior to the reform of the gap could have been misused application by riding free unlimited trips from private users Uber account, as noted by the researcher that it was possible for hackers to simulate your payment system uber by inserting random characters instead of a valid payment method, was the hackers can or users create an account on Uber.com asked journey, and when their connection to their destination, they are asked to pay in cash or by credit card, but by setting payment method is valid composed of several numbers and letters can be used uber free.
It is noteworthy that Ober decided to provide up to 10 thousand dollars to anyone who has a large security flaws discovered within its system.