Two men were arrested and indicted on Thursday November 21, suspected of having hacked the Uber Eats delivery platform. The estimated amount is more than 2 million euros.
Damage estimated at more than 2 million euros. Two individuals were arrested on Tuesday and indicted on Thursday, suspected of having hacked the Uber Eats delivery platform via encrypted Telegram messaging. The amount of damage was estimated at more than 2 million euros, reported AFP, confirming information from Le Parisien.
One of the two suspects was arrested in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), and the other in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). They were both placed under judicial supervision in Paris. The cybercrime section has opened a judicial investigation into organized gang fraud against the American online platform to enable an illicit transaction by an organized gang.
Undue reimbursements
The company Uber Eats filed a complaint on April 22 after noting that since January 2022, meal orders had received undue reimbursements from it.
The investigations were entrusted to the gendarmes of the SR (research section) of Paris who arrested the two men. A Telegram channel “Fast Eats” offered to place orders on the platform at -50% of the real value of the meals. The defendants thus recovered 50% of the real value of the order, as well as full reimbursement by the company Uber Eats, the prosecution said.
The authors used new customer accounts for each order, making it possible to obtain reimbursement for the first order. To do this, they used a fraudulent program (bot), allowing them to automate their tasks. Thus, 137,000 fraudulent accounts were detected.
The American company estimated its damage at 2.4 million euros, for the period between January 1, 2022 and June 26, 2024.
