Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee
Two men have been charged for allegedly conspiring with Russian hackers to manipulate the taxi dispatch system at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Taxis may wait for several hours at the airport in a holding area before being allowed to pick up passengers.
The scheme proved popular with taxi drivers, some of whom were supposedly exempted from the $10 fee when they managed to recruit other drivers to participate. Abayev and Leyman are said to have helped as many 1,000 drivers per day skip the line and to have paid Russian hackers more than $100,000 for"software development," as the bank transfers were described.
Drivers are said to have learned of the scheme by word of mouth and to have coordinated with Abayev and Leyman by sending their taxi medallion numbers using an unspecified chat app. Abayev and Leyman allegedly tried various techniques to hack the taxi dispatch system, including bribing someone to insert a flash drive containing malware into computers connected to the netowrk, or accessing the dispatch system's Wi-Fi network without authorization, and stealing tablet computers connected to the dispatch system.
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