Former Uber Security Chief Sentenced for Data Breach Coverup
Former Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan has been sentenced to three years of probation for covering up the 2016 theft of company data on 50 million Uber customers while the company was being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission over a previous breach. Sullivan had been convicted in October of obstruction of justice and hiding a felony, making him the first corporate executive to be found guilty of crimes related to a data breach by outsiders. The judge also said he was influenced by the unprecedented nature of the case, warning that future offenders would be jailed, even if they were the pope.