Cybersecurity

Ex-Uber Security Chief Gets No Prison Time for Hack Coverup

  • Judge received letters from Ukraine, the FTC, security experts
  • Joe Sullivan, a former prosecutor, worked for Travis Kalanick
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Uber Technologies Inc.’s former security chief was spared from prison for concealing a massive data breach in 2016.

Joe Sullivan’s sentencing to three years of probation Thursday followed his conviction by a jury last year of obstructing a government investigation and concealing the theft of personal data of 50 million customers and 7 million drivers.