SAN FRANCISCO — Former Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan avoided prison Thursday as he was sentenced for covering up the 2016 theft of company data on 50 million Uber customers while the company was being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission over a previous breach.
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Former Uber security chief Sullivan avoids prison in data breach case
The first corporate executive convicted of a crime related to a data breach by outsiders is sentenced to probation and fined
By Joseph Menn
Updated May 4, 2023 at 7:01 p.m. EDT|Published May 4, 2023 at 6:28 p.m. EDT