Uber Security Chief’s Conviction Raises Red Flags: Good Counsel

The world for in-house legal and cybersecurity professionals was turned upside down this week when a San Francisco jury returned a stunning verdict in a criminal case against Uber ex-security chief Joseph Sullivan.

Sullivan is a friend and former colleague. We worked together at eBay, when I was the company’s general counsel and he worked in trust and safety. I was at the courthouse Wednesday when the jury announced its verdict.

Sullivan was convicted on a pair of charges stemming from a 2016 breach, in which hackers stole the personal information of 57 million Uber app users. The hackers then ...