Joe Sullivan, Uber's former security chief, has been convicted of a count for concealing a massive hack suffered by the ride-hailing company in 2016, as well as another related to obstructing a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the breach.
Sullivan was fired in 2017 over the incident, which was said to have affected the personal data of over 57 million customers and drivers. He is now facing up to eight years in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, Uber paid the hackers $100,000 (£88,670) in Bitcoin in December 2016, through a 'bug bounty' program that rewards developers for revealing security vulnerabilities.
Sullivan wanted them to sign non-disclosure agreements promising to keep mum about the affair, prosecutors said, stressing that he had taken steps to make sure data compromised in the attack would not be revealed.
The hackers later pleaded guilty for their role in the incident and one of them testified during Sullivan...