Uber’s ex-CSO avoids prison after data breach cover up

After covering up a data breach that impacted the personal records of 57 million
Uber passengers and drivers, the company’s former Chief Security Officer has
been found guilty and sentenced by a US federal judge.

Joe Sullivan, a former security chief at Facebook, was the CSO at ride-sharing
firm Uber in October 2016 when hackers stole the names, email addresses, and
phone numbers of customers and drivers.

It later transpired that careless developers at the firm had left their login
credentials