Former Uber Security Chief Charged Criminally in Connection With 2016 Hack
20 Agosto 2020 - 10:23PM
Dow Jones News
By Robert McMillan
Uber Technologies Inc.'s former chief security officer, Joe
Sullivan, was charged Thursday for allegedly concealing from
federal authorities details about the massive data breach the
ride-hailing giant suffered in 2016.
Mr. Sullivan, a former federal prosecutor who is now chief
security officer at internet services company Cloudflare Inc., was
fired by Uber in 2017 for his role in the data breach, which
affected 57 million accounts.
At the time, Uber said Mr. Sullivan paid $100,000 to hackers via
the company's bug bounty program, in an effort to conceal the
breach.
Mr. Sullivan was charged in San Francisco on charges of
obstruction of justice and failing to report a crime, the
Department of Justice said in a press release.
A spokesman for Mr. Sullivan said that there was no merit to the
charges. "From the outset, Mr. Sullivan and his team collaborated
closely with legal, communications and other relevant teams at
Uber," the spokesman said in a statement. "Those policies made
clear that Uber's legal department -- and not Mr. Sullivan or his
group -- was responsible for deciding whether, and to whom, the
matter should be disclosed."
Uber has said the hack exposed the names, emails and phone
numbers of millions of riders, and about 600,000 drivers' license
numbers. The company, when it disclosed the hack, said financial
information such as credit cards and Social Security numbers
weren't taken and that it had identified the hackers and obtained
assurances they had destroyed the stolen data.
Uber continues to cooperate fully with the Department of
Justice's investigation, an Uber spokesman said in an emailed
statement.
The hack prompted a wave of departures at Uber's security
team.
Cloudflare's chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on Twitter
that he hoped the matter would be resolved quickly.
Write to Robert McMillan at Robert.Mcmillan@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
August 20, 2020 16:08 ET (20:08 GMT)
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