On Monday, The New York Times was the first to report on a lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by former WhatsApp head of security Attaullah Baig against WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, as well as executives including Pinaki Mukerji, former director of engineering at WhatsApp; Mark Tsimelzon, the current senior director of engineering at WhatsApp; Nitin Gupta, head of engineering at WhatsApp; Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp; and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta.
The suit alleges Baig observed what he believed were violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including “failure to disclose information security issues, potentially committing shareholder fraud, violations of SEC rules relating to internal controls, and/or failure to disclose material weaknesses in internal controls related to information security.” After raising various concerns about privacy and security to the company’s leadership, the complaint says, Baig endured two years of escalating retaliation, including downgrades to his performance assessments, micromanagement, and project sabotage.
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