Friday, 24 March, 2023

US charges ex-Uber security officer for hiding a 2016 massive data breach

<p>The US DoJ has charged Joseph Sullivan for deliberately keeping the FTC from learning about the 2016 cyberattack that exposed the personal info of 57M of Uber&rsquo;s customers and drivers. Joseph was the Chief Security Officer in Uber Technologies and this is the first time a security officer is charged for concealing an attack. Sullivan paid hackers with $100K under Uber&rsquo;s bounty programme and made them sign NDAs that falsely stated they had not stolen data.</p>