How an Uber account can become lost forever [Audio]

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According to Uber, when you update your email address, they are unable to tie your old email address back to your new email address.

This caused a bit of a problem when the host of Reply All lost access to his account when a Russian person "hacked" his account.

I don't understand why Uber doesn't have a history on the account "table" in their data store.

Their app database fields got leaked back in Dec when a former exec sued them and he included the info in his court filings. You can look for yourself...Funny thing I noticed is every account seems to have a Grey Balls flag.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3227535-Spangenberg-...

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