A former Uber cybersecurity chief was sentenced to three years of probation for criminal obstruction in a case stemming from his failure to report a data breach in 2016.
Media across the U.S. have been covering the trial, its outcome and its implications, and have looked to Partner Ed McAndrew for insight.
Corporate Counsel quoted McAndrew in its May 11, 2023, article, “What Executives Should Take From Ex-Uber Security Chief Joe Sullivan’s Sentence.” He told the publication that everyone in the industry wants to understand, “Where is the line, and how can we be sure we’re not crossing it?”
To InformationWeek, McAndrew said, “Imposing personal liability on senior executives in regulatory and now criminal action is unusual, but part of a larger, recent trend across the federal government.” That article, titled “Former Uber CSO Sentenced to Probation, Fined for Data Breach Cover-Up,” ran May 12, 2023.
McAndrew was also quoted in two Law360 pieces. For a May 4, 2023, article titled “Ex-Uber Exec Gets Probation for Obstructing 2016 Hack,” McAndrew said that, although Sullivan did not go to jail, the government has succeeded in making data breach incident responders fearful of prosecution.
For a May 17, 2023, Law360 analysis titled “Uber Founder Kalanick’s Absence Looms Large in Hack Case,” McAndrew said, “It was not lost on anyone that Sullivan was at the defense table by himself for actions taken in response to what was a massive cyber extortion scheme at Uber.”