SAN FRANCISCO: US prosecutors on Thursday charged Uber's former security chief with covering up a hack that compromised the personal information of 57 million users and drivers. A criminal complaint accused Joseph Sullivan of trying to hide the hack from the Federal Trade Commission.

He faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison if convicted of charges of obstructing justice and concealing a felony crime. "Silicon Valley is not the Wild West," US Attorney David Anderson for the Northern District of California said in a statement.

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