Uber Hires Former NSA General Counsel as New Security Chief
Matthew Olsen will now serve as Uber's top security boss, replacing Joe Sullivan, who was fired late last year after a previously undisclosed data breach at Uber became public.
August 15, 2018 at 02:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel
Uber Technologies Inc. has once again turned to an attorney with Capitol Hill credibility to fill out a role on its leadership team, with an announcement Tuesday it has hired Matthew Olsen, former GC of the National Security Agency, as its chief trust and security officer.
The position has been vacant at the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company since November 2017, when Uber fired former CSO Joe Sullivan for his role in covering up a 2016 data breach that impacted 57 million users.
Olsen will now lead Uber's security team. He's part of an ongoing series of hires aimed to boost public faith in the company, including the recent appointment of former associate deputy attorney general Scott Schools as chief ethics and compliance officer.
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