Ex-Meta employee whistleblower suit alleged security flaws WhatsApp

An oldMeta The employee filed a lawsuit against the social media company on Monday with allegations that the “systemic cyber security failures” of WhatsApp messaging service potentially endangers user privacy.

Former Security President Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp, claimed that Meta had retaliate after he aware of the security problems in the messaging application, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The lawsuit filed at the Northern Regional Court of California, the US, claims that Baig has found Baig’s laws of federal securities after joining WhatsApp in 2021 and the security defects that violated the legal obligations of the Federal Trade Commission of the Federal Trade Commission.

During a test with Meta’s central security team, Baig claimed that “about 1,500 WhatsApp engineer has unlimited access to user data, including sensitive personal information, and that employees can” move or steal such data without perceiving or audit traces “.

A commodity spokesman discussed Baig’s claims in a statement and underestimated his role and the ranking of the company.

“Unfortunately, this is a familiar game book in which a former employee was rejected for bad performance and then opened to the public with distorted allegations that misunderstand the hard work of our team.” “Security is a hostile field and we are proud to build it on the strong record to protect people’s privacy.”

Baig is represented by the whistle blower organization PSST.org and the law firm Schonbrun, Seplow, Harris, Hoffman and Zeldes.

Although the case does not claim that any user data is in danger, Baig says many times that cyber security failures have a regulatory risk risk. Some of the alleged safety defects include WhatsApp’s size and scale, a 24 -hour Security Operation Center team, systems to monitor user data access, and “a comprehensive inventory of systems that store user data, prevent appropriate protection and regulatory explanation”.

Baig’s lawyers claim that there were more than one example criticizing the work of his superiors and began to receive “negative performance feedback” within the next three days from the first “Cyber ​​Security statement.

In November, BAig said the SEC’s claim “informing cyber security deficiencies and investors about material cyber security risks”.

A month later, Baig sent the second one of the two letters to Zuckerberg, this time he said to CEO that he had “opened the secretion complaint” and “he immediately demanded action to address both the errors of harmony and illegal retaliation”.

In January, Baig, according to the case, allegedly received after the security statements “systemic retaliation” documenting the Occupational Health and Health Administration complained.

The following month, the complaint, Meta’s Baig, the company’s FEVK’S 5% of the personnel affecting the dismissal as part of the “Bad Performance”, he said.

“The timing and conditions of the termination of Mr. Baig establish a causal connection to the protected activity, which occurs in the close -time close proximity to external regulatory files and represents more than two years of systemic retaliation for the compliance of federal laws and regulatory decisions.”

Baig’s lawyers, SEC’s allegations on Monday to bring a statement to the federal court and “before taking this action, consuming administrative solutions,” he said.

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