How I hacked India’s biggest startup

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by Sindy Cator on March 23, 2015 at 5:09 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Hacking, India, Insider, Investigations, Ola

This post originally appeared on Medium. A few weeks ago I was monitoring my phone traffic from a proxy server. While doing that I saw Ola API calls going from my phone (since I was booking a cab). For those who don’t know about Ola, Ola Cabs is the biggest cab provider in India and also biggest competitor of Uber (again in India). It has raised $500 million in funding, and processes 150,000 bookings a day. After seeing those flashing binary data going from my system I forgot my weekend project and started tweaking and reverse engineering Ola’s APIs which eventually…