"As part of my probation, I have to fill out of a form once a month, and one of the questions asks if I interacted with any other people convicted of a crime," Sullivan told The Register. "A couple months ago I had to say, 'Yes, I did interact with someone who committed a crime because the judge asked me to.'"
""They didn't wake up and decide to become hackers," Sullivan said. "A lot of it is that they are coming out of the gaming culture, and it doesn't celebrate winning by the rules. It celebrates winning, period.""
Joe Sullivan is a former Uber chief security officer convicted for attempting to cover up a 2016 breach. A federal judge requested Sullivan to meet and try to rehabilitate a young convicted hacker accused of breaching corporate networks. Sullivan previously served as a federal prosecutor specializing in cybercrime at the US Justice Department. Sullivan will not identify the allegedly hacked high-profile firm. Sullivan must report monthly during probation whether he interacted with other convicted people. Young people are increasingly implicated in large-scale breaches, motivated by gaming culture that prizes winning over rules, leading to thefts of source code, customer data, and disruption of casino systems.
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