Joe Sullivan had covered up a 'massive theft' of Uber user data, in 2016, prosecutors said.
Uber's former chief security officer has been convicted of failing to tell US authorities about a 2016 hack of the company's databases.
After Sullivan's conviction his lawyer, David Angeli, said "Mr Sullivan's sole focus, in this incident and throughout his distinguished career, has been ensuring the safety of people's personal data on the internet," the"We expect those companies to protect that data and to alert customers and appropriate authorities when such data is stolen by hackers,"
According to the DOJ, Sullivan arranged for the hackers to be paid $100,000 in bitcoin in exchange for them signing non-disclosure agreements to not reveal the hack to anyone,The payment was disguised as a "bug bounty", a reward used to pay cyber-security researchers who disclose vulnerabilities so they can be fixed.
The DOJ said that Sullivan "orchestrated these acts despite knowing that the hackers were hacking and extorting other companies as well as Uber, and that the hackers had obtained data from at least some of those other companies". The court also heard that internal legal advice had suggested that there was no need to disclose the hack if the attackers were identified, and agreed to delete the data and not spread it further.
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