Government,
Data Privacy,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 21, 2022
FBI agent details communication between Uber executives over breach
FBI special agent Welton Pollard testified that the government found emails early after the breach in which CEO Travis Kalanick asked security chief Joseph Sullivan to make certain Sullivan found a vulnerability, determine the severity of the exposure, was confident the situation could be treated as a bug bounty and tightly document everything.




Jurors in the criminal trial of a former security chief at Uber Technologies Inc. were allowed on Tuesday a peek into communications between several people involved in the company’s response to a 2016 data breach, with a focus on conversations between chief executive officer Travis Kalanick and the security chief.
FBI special agent Welton Pollard testified that the government found emails early after the breach in which Kalanick asked sec...
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