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Subject: Former Uber security chief convicted of covering up 2016 data
breach
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 00:05:23 -0400
Former Uber security chief convicted of covering up 2016 data
breach
Surprise verdict on charges that predated rampant ransomware and
extortion payoffs in more recent hacking cases


By Joseph Menn
October 5, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO — A former chief security officer for Uber was
convicted Wednesday of federal charges stemming from payments he
quietly authorized to hackers who breached the ride-hailing company in
2016.
Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing justice for keeping the
breach from the Federal Trade Commission, which had been probing
Uber’s privacy protections at the time, and of actively hiding a
felony.
The verdict ended a dramatic case that pitted Sullivan, a prominent
security expert who was an early prosecutor of cybercrimes for the San
Francisco U.S. attorney’s office, against his former government
office. In between prosecuting hackers and being prosecuted, Sullivan
served as the top security executive at Facebook, Uber and Cloudflare.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/05/uber-obstruction-sullivan-hacking/
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