Maria Dinzeo
"I'm grateful for everyone who stood by me," Sullivan said of the more than 200 people who wrote letters of support. "I felt like I was at my own Irish wake."
"Let's be clear about what the FTC is trying to do: usurp the authority of Congress to set industry-wide standards and instead single out one American company while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil," a Meta spokesperson said.
"There's a lot of unpredictability right now. There's a lot of head-scratching about what's going to come next—what sectors are going to get hit with the next emergency directive, for example," said Megan Leef Brown, a partner with Wiley Rein.
"With this level of breach that can and will happen, you can't afford to take a wait-and-see approach if you are managing sensitive data," said Rebecca Krauthamer, co-founder of quantum cybersecurity software firm QuSecure.
"As an in-house attorney, I don't need you to move mountains like a soulless drone," said Matt Margolis, head of community at Lawtrades. "All I care about is results and working collegially with my counsel."
Irina Dilkinska was arrested in Bulgaria on Monday and extradited to the United States the next day. Prosecutors say she helped perpetuate a wide-ranging scheme with millions of victims and billions of dollars in losses.
"The board, the c-suite, are all going to be looking at the lawyers and my guess is this is a once in a lifetime crises, so you want to make sure you have people you can count on on your legal team," said three-time general counsel Sterling Miller.
Ex-Uber security chief Joe Sullivan "is being punished for something that actually happens all the time, and for which we don't have good legal guidance," former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos said.
"The CISO knows where all the bodies are buried and where all the evidence is," said Donna Gallaher, a data privacy risk adviser.
