INTERESTING LINKS to this guy’s jobs-Not sure if this leads anywhere or not—so many webs.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Joseph Sullivan, 52, with felony obstruction of justice, saying he took “deliberate steps” to keep the Federal Trade Commission from learning about the hack while the agency was monitoring Uber security in the wake of an earlier breach.
The case was believed to be first time a corporate information security officer has been charged with concealing a hack.
Sullivan, himself a former federal prosecutor, arranged to pay the hackers $100,000 under Uber’s program for rewarding security researchers who report flaws. That amount was by far the most Uber had paid through the bounty program, which was not meant to cover theft of sensitive data.
A former chief of security at Facebook, Sullivan now works as chief information security officer at Cloudflare.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-uber-chief-security-officer-193407199.html
I worked for uber at at time, not as a driver but as a tech manager leading a team of practice architects and service delivery managers to build some tech stuff to help there biz across the nation as a contractor. I just have to say their management was clueless and the participated in politics to the extreme and I mean extreme. It was all just CYA and CYbuddies, regardless.
Just my observation, my NDA has expired and I know both breaches they are alluding to in the links. I can just say good to this news and there will be no flying or self driving cars, even though that is the cool end of their biz.