Former Uber CSO convicted of covering up massive 2016 data theft
Joe Sullivan, Uber's former chief security officer, has been found guilty of illegally covering up the theft of Uber drivers and customers' personal information.with obstruction of justice and misprision – concealing a felony from law enforcement. He was convicted on both counts today.acknowledging that in late 2016, miscreants had broken into the app giant's infrastructure and made off with 57 million customer and driver records.
Sullivan, according to court documents, learned of the theft in November 2016, about ten days after he had provided testimony to the US Federal Trade Commission about a 2014 cyberattack on Uber. Concerned that another data security breach would harm the company, Sullivan tried to cover up that 2016 heist by trying to pass off a ransom payment, made to the thieves to recover the data, as a bug bounty award.breaches of data security, though Sullivan was charged under federal statutes.
Evidence in the case indicates that Travis Kalanick, CEO at the time of the 2016 theft, was made aware of the cyber-pilferage shortly after Sullivan learned about it andUber ultimately made two $50,000 payments to the intruders in December 2016. A month later, after managing to identify one of them, an Uber representative met the man in Florida and had him sign a confidentiality agreement.
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