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Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction

Schneier on Security

Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. The government argued that Sullivan should have informed the FTC of the 2016 incident, but instead went out of his way to conceal it from them. “Despite the fact that Mr.

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Former Uber CISO Faces Prison Time For Mishandling Cyberattack: Justice, Scapegoating, or Both?

Joseph Steinberg

A jury yesterday found former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan guilty of covering up a massive data breach; the conviction makes Sullivan likely to become the first executive to face prison time over the mishandling of a cyberattack. Serving as a Chief Information Security Officer is a daunting task. Click To Tweet.

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Uber's Ex-CISO Appeals Conviction Over 2016 Data Breach

Dark Reading

Joe Sullivan's lawyers have claimed his conviction on two felony charges is based on tenuous theories and criminalizes the use of bug bounty programs.

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T-Mobile, Uber Settle Data Breach Incidents

SecureWorld News

Data breaches can be quite a complicated issue for organizations. No matter how good, or bad, your cybersecurity is, sophisticated threat actors always seem to find a way to make life difficult for a CISO. T-Mobile data breach. The company disclosed the data breach quickly after discovering it.

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Judge Spares Former Uber CISO Jail Time Over 2016 Data Breach Charges

Dark Reading

Tell other CISO's "you got a break," judge says in handing down a three-year probation sentence to Joseph Sullivan.

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CSO sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for Uber Data Breach cover up

CyberSecurity Insiders

Joe Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Uber, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and 200 hours of community service for covering up a cyber attack on the company’s servers in 2016, which led to a data breach affecting over 50 million riders and drivers.

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Marriott Involved in Yet Another Data Breach

SecureWorld News

Marriott International has confirmed that it was victim to another data breach, its third since 2018, as an anonymous group of threat actors says it was able to successfully exfiltrate 20 GB of data, which includes credit card and other confidential information. The cause of the breach? Fool me twice, shame on me.