{"id":4737,"date":"2025-03-15T22:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-affirms-conviction-of-ex-uber-security-chief-that-shook-cybersecurity-world\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T22:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:47:28","slug":"court-affirms-conviction-of-ex-uber-security-chief-that-shook-cybersecurity-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/court-affirms-conviction-of-ex-uber-security-chief-that-shook-cybersecurity-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Affirms Conviction of Ex-Uber Security Chief That Shook Cybersecurity World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday unanimously upheld former Uber security chief Joseph Sullivan\u2019s 2022 conviction on charges he covered up a massive data breach at the company and obstructed a regulator&#8217;s investigation into its security practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>In a quest to clear his name, Sullivan in October 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2023\/10\/11\/ex-uber-security-chief-appeals-conviction-that-shook-cybersecurity-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">appealed his conviction<\/a>, even though the federal judge who oversaw the nearly month-long trial had spared him from prison. San Francisco federal Judge William Orrick could have put Sullivan behind bars for up to eight years but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2023\/05\/04\/former-uber-security-chief-joe-sullivan-avoids-prison-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> sentenced him to just three months of probation<\/a> and 200 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday unanimously upheld former Uber security chief Joseph Sullivan\u2019s 2022 conviction on charges he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[465,616,363,143,938,5118,2494,1673,190],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-affirms","tag-chief","tag-conviction","tag-court","tag-cybersecurity","tag-exuber","tag-security","tag-shook","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}