Former Uber security chief faces fraud charges over data breach

Financial NetworkAuto News June 29, according to Sina Technology News, Uber was hacked in 2016, when the personal information of 57 million passengers and drivers was stolen by hackers, after the incident Joseph Sullivan, Uber's former head of security. ) trying to hide.A U.S. federal judge said Tuesday that Sullivan must face wire fraud charges.

Sullivan paid two hackers to keep them silent, while he also defrauded passengers, drivers, the FTC.Sullivan countered that prosecutors accused him of concealing the hack, saying he did so in an effort to prevent the driver from fleeing so that the driver would continue to pay for the service, but there was no solid evidence to prosecute such an allegation.San Francisco District Judge William O'Rick apparently disagreed.

Not only that, but Sullivan also believes that Uber's then-CEO and general counsel were deceived, not the driver, and the judge disagrees on this point.Orrick said that while Sullivan's misrepresentation was not directed at the driver, it was part of a larger scheme to deceive the driver.

Prosecutors allege that Sullivan paid the hackers about $100,000 in bitcoin as a hush money.He also got the hackers to sign non-disclosure agreements, saying they didn't steal the data.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi fired Sullivan after learning of the data breach.

In September 2018, Uber paid $148 million to settle claims with 50 states and Washington, DC, with plaintiffs arguing that Uber was slow to disclose information.