CyberSecurity Updates

A federal jury has found Joe Sullivan, former CSO of Uber, guilty of covering up a data breach the company suffered in 2016.  The breach saw 57 million user’s information including full names, email addresses, telephone numbers and driver’s license numbers exposed, and led to Uber paying US$148,000 to settle civil litigation. Sullivan was convicted on October 5 of obstruction of proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and misprision of felony in connection with…

Paige Thompson, a former Amazon software engineer known by the online handle ‘erratic’ was sentenced to time served and five years’ probation for seven federal crimes. Thompson’s location and personal computer will also be monitored.  The sentencing was related to her hacks into a number of cloud accounts for both individuals and companies, including the bank Capital One. During the hacks, Thompson stole data and computer power. At the trial, she was found guilty of…

The person responsible for hacking into Rockstar Games, leaking gameplay and clips from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 game, has been potentially identified and arrested by London police. The hacker, known as teapottuberhacker, was also allegedly responsible for an attack into rideshare platform Uber earlier this month, which saw the hacker take control of Uber’s systems and post a graphic image on the company’s internal sites. They are also said to be a member…

Australian telecommunication company Optus suffered a devastating data breach on September 22 that has led to the details of 11 million customers being accessed. The information accessed includes customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, driver’s license and/or passport numbers and Medicare ID numbers. Payment detail and account passwords were not compromised in the breach. Optus confirmed that it has now contacted all customers to notify them of the cyber-attack’s impact,…

Australian telecommunications company Telstra revealed on Tuesday that it had been hit by a data breach that had revealed the details of 30,000 current and former employees. The details included employee’s first and last names and email addresses, and were posted on hacking forum Breached. This forum was also used to leak information obtained in the Optus hack. In a tweet, Telstra confirmed that the data leak “wasn’t a breach of any Telstra system” and…