Former Uber Executive Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach
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According to the complaint, Uber's CEO at the time, Travis Kalanick, knew about the incident and about the steps Sullivan took to allegedly cover it up, including making the $100,000 payout under Uber's "bug bounty" program.Kalanick has not been charged and wouldn't comment for this story.Like many tech companies, Uber pays so-called "white hat" hackers to test its systems for vulnerabilities. "We allege that this entire course of conduct reflects [Sullivan's] consciousness of guilt and desperation to conceal."Sullivan never notified FTC about breachThe charges are the latest turn in a saga that dates back to November 2016, when Sullivan received an email from a hacker calling himself "John Doughs," who claimed to have found a "major vulnerability in uber." The hacker said, "I was able to dump uber database and many other things," according to the complaint.At the time, Uber was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for a separate 2014 breach that was carried out the same way "John Doughs" accessed Uber's data.
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