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The former chief security officer for Uber was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed tens of millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service.

Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to a three-year term of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $50,000, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.

Sullivan, 54, of Palo Alto was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco last October of obstructing justice and concealing knowledge that a federal felony had been committed.
Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to a three-year term of probation for covering up a data breach at Uber. The data breach in which hackers accessed millions of customers’ records. Joseph also has to pay a fine of $50,000 he was convicted last October in San Francisco. 