InfoSec News Nuggets 10/06/2022
Former Uber security chief convicted of covering up 2016 data breach A former chief security officer for Uber was convicted Wednesday of federal charges stemming from payments he quietly authorized to hackers who breached the ride-hailing company in 2016. Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing justice for hiding the breach from the Federal Trade Commission, which had been probing Uber’s privacy protections at the time, and of actively hiding a felony. The verdict ended a dramatic…