💬 Quoted…​​ “I know that the Pentagon is being hacked… so can’t we hack the taxi industry[?]”

Two men, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, allegedly conspired with Russian hackers to infiltrate the JFK airport taxi dispatch system, per a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. Once in, the men were reportedly able to move specific taxis to the front of the queue – which sometimes took hours of waiting to get through – and began charging drivers $10 to skip to the front of the line.

• Prosecutors allege the pair were able to manipulate as many as 1,000 taxi trips per day over the course of the scheme, which lasted from November 2019 to November 2020.

🖼👍 Stat of the Day: There's a new most-liked Instagram post of all time, and it belongs to Lionel Messi. The Argentinian soccer star's carousel post showing him holding the World Cup trophy and other photos currently has 68.9 million likes, surpassing an egg photo from 2019 that was the previous record-holder with 57.8 million likes.

🤯 Did You Know?... 75% of all US employees have had a romantic relationship with someone they work with, per a new LiveCareer poll of 1,100 workers.

📖 Worth a Read: Unmasking a TikTok Creator Who Doesn’t Really Exist → (VICE)