This hack for hacks backfired big time.
A pair of Queens cab drivers were handed prison sentences on Monday after they admitted to working with Russian hackers to breach the JFK Airport taxi dispatch system and help their fellow cabbies skip to the front of the pick-up line.
Daniel Abayev, 47, and Peter Layman, 49, charged other cab drivers $10 a pop to skip to the front of the queue at the bustling airport — where cabbies regularly wait several hours in a holding lot before being dispatched to a terminal, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.
Abayev and Layman allegedly earned kickbacks from the drivers after helping them to skip the line.
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The two cabbies sent part of their ill-gotten haul to two Russia-based hackers who helped them secure access to the Port Authority of New York’s dispatch system between November 2019 and November 2020, court papers alleged.
The duo even bribed someone to brazenly insert a flash drive loaded with hacking software into a government computer as part of the scheme, the feds said.