Uber Ex-Security Chief Faces Additional Charges

Joe Schneider

(Bloomberg) — Uber Technologies Inc.’s erstwhile main information serviceman Joseph Sullivan faces a caller ligament fraud charges successful summation to earlier charges related to covering up a 2016 information breach that compromised the idiosyncratic accusation of 57 cardinal drivers and users.

A superseding indictment handed down Wednesday describes however Sullivan allegedly orchestrated the disbursement of a six-figure outgo to 2 hackers successful speech for their soundlessness astir the breach, the Justice Department said successful a statement.

“We allege Sullivan falsified documents to debar the work to notify victims and hid the severity of a superior information breach from the FTC, each to enrich his company,” Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds said successful the statement.

David Angeli, Sullivan’s lawyer, rejected the government’s latest allegations.

“There’s thing caller here,” Angeli said successful an emailed statement. “The ‘new’ charges are conscionable a recycling of the aforesaid meritless allegations against Mr. Sullivan, whose punctual and decisive actions — which were known to Uber’s Legal section and galore others astatine the institution — led to the speedy recognition of the individuals liable for this incident.”

According to the indictment, Sullivan allegedly attempted to suppress find of the breach by having 2 of the hackers execute non-disclosure agreements. The non-disclosure agreements falsely stated the hackers had neither taken nor stored Uber’s information successful the 2016 breach, the authorities said.

An arraignment connected the caller complaint hasn’t been scheduled yet.

Sullivan, 52, joined Uber successful 2015. He started his vocation arsenic a national authoritative successful machine hacking and intelligence spot law. He was a fixture successful Silicon Valley for much than a decade, with stints astatine PayPal and EBay Inc. earlier becoming the main information serviceman astatine Facebook successful 2008.

Uber has responded to authorities inquiries astir the case, the Justice Department said.

The lawsuit is U.S. v. Sullivan, 20-cr-337, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.

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