The Uber data breach resulted in the theft of a variety of internal company information, and stemmed from a third-party vendor. The thieves also got away with source code and employee personal information.
The cover-up the security chief orchestrated was outed in 2017 when Uber appointed a new CEO and an internal investigation into the prior year's data breach was initiated. He was convicted on charges of obstruction of justice and knowing concealment of a felony.
Uber cybersecurity incident was the result of social engineering by teenage hacker. Network breach was a total compromise and that the attacker had full access to Uber's systems.
