Cybersecurity

Uber CEO Testifies at Fraud Trial of Security Chief He Fired

  • Joe Sullivan is fighting charges he concealed massive hack
  • Khosrowshahi called as government witness in federal court

Dara Khosrowshahi

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi testified that he fired the company’s chief security officer soon after taking the helm in 2017 “because I couldn’t trust his judgment anymore.”

Khosrowshahi was called by prosecutors Friday as a witness against Joe Sullivan, who’s charged with concealing a 2016 hack into company servers that compromised the personal data of 50 million customers and 7 million drivers.