Courthouse – Former Uber security chief found guilty of covering up data breach
“A federal jury found Uber’s former head of security Joseph Sullivan guilty of covering up a 2016 data breach and extortion scheme that exposed 57 million app users’ personal information.”
Infosecurity – Ransomware Affiliates Adopt Data Destruction
“However, in this version of the tool, the attacker attempts to corrupt files in the victim’s system following exfiltration, rather than encrypt them as usual.”