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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