(Photo courtesy Flickr user Eliott Brown / cc2.0) Insisting that it is “changing the way we do business,” Uber announced Tuesday that it fired its chief security officer and another employee after revealing it paid the hackers behind a security breach last year that exposed the personal information of millions of people to keep quiet about the incident. Until Tuesday, Joe Sullivan directed a security team at Uber that covered up an October 2016 incident in which two people figured out how to get into Uber’s Amazon Web Services account through credentials pilfered from a Github site used by its engineers, accessing the personal information of 57 million customers and 7 million of its drivers, according to Bloomberg.

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