Hey, this is PJ with a quick note before the show starts.

If you have not listened to episode 91, the Russian passenger, which is about Alex Boomerik's

uber-accomping hacked, go listen to that before you listen to this episode.

If you don't, it'll be like just watching the last episode of a TV show.

You'll ruin a bunch of surprise for yourself and also just be confused.

Go back, listen, come back here.

Okay, let's go.

Previously on Reply All.

Somehow, someone in Russia got the password for your uber and is just like,

and hacked my uber account, right?

Whoever had access to his email account was clicking on those links, verifying it was

him and then deleting the notification before he saw them.

You sort of leave these little traces of yourself all over the internet and as time goes

by, those chances of one of the places you've left your data being breached and that data

being leaked, it continues to go up.

So a couple weeks ago, we did an episode called The Russian Passager.

And in that episode, our boss, Alex Boomerik, came to us with a question.

His question was, how did a Russian person steal my uber account?

Yes.

Someone had been taking trips around Moscow on his rubble.

On his rubble dime.

He wanted us to figure out what had happened, which sort of seemed simple enough and then

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