Data Breach Privacy

Former Uber CISO charged for concealing hack

Yesterday Uber’s former security chief Joe Sullivan was charged with attempting to conceal a hack from federal investigators. This hack exposed the email addresses and phone numbers of 57 million drivers and passengers.

As a result the former CISO could face up to eight years in prison for not promptly disclosing to the employee and consumer victims in that hack, which indicates bad corporate behaviour.

Read more about this at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/technology/joe-sullivan-uber-charged-hack.html