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2022-10-06 13:16:00 | Guilty verdict in the Uber breach case makes personal liability real for CISOs (lien direct) | Yesterday, a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict to Joe Sullivan, the former CSO on charges of “obstruction of the proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission and misprision of felony in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber” according to a notice published by the Department of Justice (DOJ).US Attorney Stephanie Hinds, upon learning of the verdict, admonished companies that are storing data as to their responsibility to also “protect that data and to alert customers and appropriate authorities when such data is stolen by hackers. Sullivan affirmatively worked to hide the data breach from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and took steps to prevent the hackers from being caught. We will not tolerate the concealment of important information from the public by corporate executives more interested in protecting their reputation and that of their employers than in protecting users. Where such conduct violates the federal law, it will be prosecuted.”To read this article in full, please click here | Data Breach Hack | Uber Uber | |
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2022-09-16 03:46:00 | Uber responding to “cybersecurity incident” following reports of significant data breach (lien direct) | Ride-hailing giant Uber has confirmed that it is responding to a cybersecurity incident as reports emerge that the firm has suffered a significant network data breach forcing it to shut down several internal communications and engineering systems.Attacker announces Uber breach through compromised Slack account In a statement on Twitter, Uber wrote “We are currently responding to a cybersecurity incident. We are in touch with law enforcement and will post additional updates here as they become available.” While details from the company are currently sparse, a report by the New York Times on Thursday claimed that a hacker was able to compromise an employee's Slack account and used it to send a message to Uber employees announcing that the company had suffered a data breach.To read this article in full, please click here | Data Breach | Uber Uber | |
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2022-05-19 02:00:00 | Uber CISO\'s trial underscores the importance of truth, transparency, and trust (lien direct) | Truth, transparency and trust are the three T's that all CISOs and CSOs should embrace as they march through their daily grind of keeping their enterprise and the data safe and secure. Failure to adhere to the three T's can have serious consequences.Case in point: A federal judge recently ordered Uber Technologies to work with its former CSO, Joseph Sullivan (who held the position from April 2015 to November 2017), and review a plethora of Uber documents that Sullivan has requested in unredacted form for use in his defense in the upcoming criminal trial.The case against Uber's former CSO By way of background, Uber's former CSO faces a five-felony count superseding indictment associated with his handling of the company's 2016 data breach. The court document, filed in December 2021, alleges Sullivan “engaged in a scheme designed to ensure that the data breach did not become public knowledge, was concealed, and was not disclosed to the FTC and to impacted users and drivers.” Furthermore, the two individuals, who are believed to have affected the hack and subsequently requested payment for non-disclosure ultimately received $100,000 from Uber's bug bounty program. These individuals were identified in media as, Vasile Mereacre, a Canadian citizen living in Toronto, and Brandon Glover, a Florida resident, both of whom were later indicted for their breach of Lynda (a company acquired by Linkedin).To read this article in full, please click here | Data Breach Hack | Uber Uber | |
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2018-10-30 03:00:00 | Biggest data breach penalties for 2018 (lien direct) | Uber: $148 million Image by Getty/UberIn 2016 ride-hailing app Uber had 600,000 driver and 57 million user accounts were breached. Instead of reporting the incident the company paid the perpetrator $100,000 to keep the hack under wraps. Those actions, however, cost the company dearly. The company was fined $148 million -- the biggest data-breach payout in history – for violation of state data breach notification laws. |
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