The incident reportedly involved 57 million users and 600,000 driver license numbers.
SAN FRANCISCO – The ex-chief security officer of Uber Technologies Inc. has been convicted of covering up a 2016 data breach involving 57 million of the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company’s users, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Sullivan was hired as Uber’s chief security officer in April 2015. The company at the time had recently disclosed to the Federal Trade Commission that it had been the victim of a data breach in 2014. The breach related to the unauthorized access of 50,000 customers’ personal information.
Prosecutors said Sullivan played a key role in Uber’s response to the FTC – he supervised its responses to the FTC, participated in a presentation to the FTC in March 2016 and testified under oath on Nov. 6, 2016, regarding the company’s practices.. The hackers reached out to Sullivan directly via email on Nov. 14, 2016, and informed him and others at the company that they had stolen user data, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Technology companies in the Northern District of California collect and store vast amounts of data from users,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds said in the statement. “We expect those companies to protect that data and to alert customers and appropriate authorities when such data is stolen by hackers.
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