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Former Uber CSO criminally charged with covering up 2016 data breach

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U.S. prosecutors have charged the former Chief Security Officer at Uber with allegedly covering up a data breach at the ride-hailing company that exposed information tied to roughly 57 million people. Joe Sullivan was charged Thursday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco with failing to disclose details of the security incident to the proper authorities. Sullivan, who now works as the chief information security officer at Cloudflare, allegedly committed two felonies by not informing investigators about the hack while they probed the circumstances surrounding a prior data breach. Sullivan was charged with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony. The maximum sentence if convicted on both charges is eight years in prison. The complaint pertains to a 2016 incident in which two hackers contacted Uber via email to report that they had accessed personal information about 57 million Uber users and drivers, including driver’s license numbers. The […]

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Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty on most serious charges after years of legal wrangling

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A U.S. jury has found an accused Russian hacker guilty on charges that he hacked LinkedIn and Formspring in a pair of 2012 data breaches in which he stole credentials belinging to more than 100 million Americans. Yevgeniy Nikulin was found guilty after just hours of deliberation, roughly eight years after he first infiltrated the U.S. social media companies in a successful attempt to steal data about American web users. He also was found guilty of trafficking Formspring data, and damaging a computer belonging to a Formspring employee in excess of $5,000. The jury found Nikulin not guilty on a charge that he committed the crime for financial gain. “Nikulin’s conviction is a direct threat to would-be hackers, wherever they may be,” U.S. Attorney David Anderson said in a statement. “Computer hacking is not just a crime, it is a direct threat to the security and privacy of Americans. American […]

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