Uber's ex-security chief was found guilty of covering up a major data breach in 2016
, a jury in a San Francisco federal court has found Sullivan guilty of obstructing the FTC's ongoing investigation into Uber at the time for another breach that occurred in 2014. He was also found guilty of actively hiding a felony from authorities.
The hackers got in touch with Uber shortly after Sullivan sat for a deposition with the FTC for its investigation of the 2014 cybersecurity incident. They told him they found a security vulnerability that allowed them to download the personal data of 600,000 drivers and additional information linked to 57 million drivers and passengers. Asreports, it was revealed later on that the hackers found a digital key that they used to get into Uber's Amazon account.
Sullivan pointed them to the company's bug bounty program, which had a max payout of $10,000. The hackers wanted at least $100,000, however, and threatened to release the data they'd stolen if Uber didn't pay up. The former security chief paid them the amount they demanded in bitcoin and made it appear as if they'd been paid under the bug bounty program — an action reportedly sanction by then Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick.
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