Glitch causes Grab fares to surge to over $1000 for rides typically costing less than $20

Jewel Stolarchuk
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:18:57 +0000
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SINGAPORE: Users of private-hire car operator Grab were shocked on Wednesday afternoon (Aug 20) when fares on the app surged to over a thousand dollars, far exceeding the usual rates of under $20. According to data from Downdetector, a network status monitoring site, 67 outage complaints about Grab were lodged within just 30 minutes between …