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posted by janrinok on Friday October 07 2022, @06:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the about-time-too dept.

Uber's Former Security Chief Convicted of Covering Up 2016 Data Breach:

The firm's former chief information security officer was found guilty of hiding a massive data breach from federal investigators.

A federal jury has convicted Uber's former security chief of charges related to a 2016 cover-up involving the ride-share giant, according to journalists present in the courtroom.

Joe Sullivan, who was found guilty of one count of obstruction and one count of misprision of a felony on Wednesday, helped to conceal a massive 2016 data breach from authorities, while also obstructing a Federal Trade Commission investigation.

[...] Federal prosecutors alleged that Sullivan subsequently attempted to "conceal, deflect, and mislead the Federal Trade Commission about the breach." Sullivan's charges stem from the cover-up, not paying the hackers. The latter has become increasingly common in the cybersecurity industry in recent years.

The case has decidedly split those in the cybersecurity community. The New York Times reports that this could be the first time that a security executive was held liable for a hacking incident in this way. The episode could ultimately set a new precedent for future cases in which CISOs must face legal consequences over data breaches.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Booga1 on Friday October 07 2022, @09:06AM

    by Booga1 (6333) on Friday October 07 2022, @09:06AM (#1275393)

    The episode could ultimately set a new precedent for future cases in which CISOs must face legal consequences over *hiding* data breaches.

    There, fixed it.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 07 2022, @11:48AM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 07 2022, @11:48AM (#1275408) Journal

    Note that one individual wasn't responsible. I don't even care to search for the structure of Uber's top management, but it's a certainty that multiple officers were involved. Almost all of those officers were above pay grade X, with a fair selection of security officers below pay grade X. Toss all their asses in prison. Someone should also examine what input board members had in all of this.

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by janrinok on Friday October 07 2022, @01:57PM (1 child)

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 07 2022, @01:57PM (#1275419) Journal

      If the CEO is given a custodial sentence I wonder if he will ask his lawyer for leniency if he blows the whistle on others who knew what was happening. He was probably happy to carry the can if he thought his potential fines would be paid by the company (followed by a golden parachute no doubt) but I wonder how many thought that it might possibly end up with a potential 5 year sentence.

      Of course, the judge might show him leniency because he is of 'good character' or some such nonsense, and he might not receive the same punishment as you or I might.

      • (Score: -1, Spam) by aristarchus 2 on Saturday October 08 2022, @02:22AM

        by aristarchus 2 (18687) on Saturday October 08 2022, @02:22AM (#1275492)

        Better than being known as a blundering lazy do nothing all talk erroneous bullshit artist in yourself janrinok. You blundering idiot caught red-handed stalking apk by unidentifiable anonymous posts and illegally tracking him with hashes for EIGHT years. Apk destroyed you easily!

        #WeAreAristarchus #WeAreAPK

    • (Score: 2) by corey on Friday October 07 2022, @09:55PM

      by corey (2202) on Friday October 07 2022, @09:55PM (#1275471)

      I might have confirmation bias but whenever I hear news of Uber, it’s about some other reason why they are an evil company.

      I never had or will use Uber, for this reason. I also always felt unease about the way people always seemed smug about using them over taxis.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2022, @10:54PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2022, @10:54PM (#1275473)

      Note that one individual wasn't responsible.

      Oh, really? Which one?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2022, @11:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2022, @11:55PM (#1275476)

        The janitor, of course.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by aristarchus 2 on Saturday October 08 2022, @03:27AM

    by aristarchus 2 (18687) on Saturday October 08 2022, @03:27AM (#1275505)

    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: SN is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SN community when IDC confirmed that SN posting has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of Slashdot. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SN has lost more users, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. SN is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in a recent survey of news aggregators.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict SN's future. The hand writing is on the wall: SN faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for SN because SN is dying. Things are looking very bad for SN. As many of us are already aware, SN continues to lose users and subscribers. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    SN is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its users. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time SN admins c0lo and The Mighty Buzzard only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SN is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Slashdot leader whipslash states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot. How many users of Pipedot are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus Pipedot posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Pipedot users. SN posts on Usenet are about one hundredth of the volume of Pipedot posts. Therefore there are about 14 users of SN. A recent article put Hacker News at about 80 percent of the news aggregator market. Therefore there are (7000+1400)*4 = 33600 Hacker News users. This is consistent with the number of Hacker News Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of NCommander, abysmal management and so on, SN was taken over by martyb who is another troubled admin. Now martyb is also gone, and SN's corpse was turned over to Janrinok the Censor.

    All major surveys show that SN has steadily declined in users and comments. SN is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If SN is to survive at all it will be among gun nuts like Runaway and khallow. SN continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save SN from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SN is dead.

    Fact: SN is dying

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