The former chief security officer for Uber has been convicted of trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service.
An email to Uber seeking comment on the conviction wasn’t immediately returned.
After learning of the breach, Sullivan began a scheme to hide it from the public and the Federal Trade Commission, which had been investigating a smaller 2014 hack, authorities said. Uber’s new management began investigating the breach in the fall of 2017. Despite Sullivan lying to the new chief executive officer and others, the truth was uncovered and the breach was made public, prosecutors said.
Sullivan was convicted of of obstruction of proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission and misprision of felony, meaning concealing knowledge of a felony from authorities.Meanwhile, some experts have questioned how much cybersecurity has improved at Uber since the breach.that all its services were operational following what security professionals called a major data breach, claiming there was no evidence the hacker got access to sensitive user data.
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