According to the source, hackers caused a huge traffic jam after hacking the application for ordering a taxi from the company “Yandex”. They forced dozens of cars to come to the same spot at the same time.

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A video was shared on Twitter showing the queues of taxis trying to reach their destination.

“Someone hacked Yandex.Taxi and ordered all the taxis to Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. There is a huge traffic jam right now. It’s like a James Bond movie.”

Unfortunately, the security service of the service reacted quickly enough and stopped the accumulation of cars. Judging by the available data, the traffic jam lasted less than an hour. And although Yandex itself has not yet confirmed who did the attack, Hacker group Anonymous claims responsibility for Twitter attack. The message says they are cooperating with the Ukrainian IT Army.

Anonymous confirmed that the attack on the Yandex.Taxi application was carried out as part of OpRussia, in partnership with the Ukrainian IT Army. victory for Ukraine,
– wrote on the hacktivist page.

It should be noted that there is no comment on this subject on the Ukraine IT Army Telegram channel yet.