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Three Uber security managers resign after CEO criticises practices

Leadership in the unit has been in turmoil since the termination last week of Sullivan and a deputy

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Photo: Reuters

Joseph Menn & Dustin Volz | Reuters San Francisco / Washington
Three senior managers in Uber Technologies’s security unit resigned on Friday, an Uber spokesperson said, days after the company’s new chief executive officer disclosed a massive data breach and criticised past security practices.
 
Uber’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, who was installed in the top job in August, disclosed the data breach last month shortly after learning of it himself, saying that “none of this should have happened.” Uber’s security practices are also under scrutiny in a high-stakes legal battle with self-driving car company Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary.
 
Uber last week said it fired its chief security officer, Joe Sullivan,

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