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My admittedly limited understanding/speculation (from what I saw disclosed in the media and the timing of the events) is that this breach came to light shortly
by lhorie 6y ago
My admittedly limited understanding/speculation (from what I saw disclosed in the media and the timing of the events) is that this breach came to light shortly after Dara took over as CEO (presumably from a review of finances), and that Dara then voluntarily disclosed the breach to the public as part of Uber's reputation house cleaning effort, and that the failure to disclose the breach was the reason for Joe's termination.
I don't know whether Uber had a proper bug bounty program setup at the time this happened, nor whether this could be considered one, so I can't comment on the specifics.
- j4nt4b 6y agoA lot of this information is available in the compliant that was filed by the FBI against Sullivan: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7041237/Joseph-Sullivan-Complaint.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7041237/Joseph-Su... In particular, part of Sullivan's cover-up efforts included passing the breach off as a $100,000 bug (their largest at the time) in the bounty program and trying to sign secret NDAs with the hackers. He also paid them a bitcoin ransom. > Witnesses reported SULLIVAN was visibly shaken by the events. It's a good read.