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Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”
Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said.
Over the past year, Meta has blanketed TV screens around the world with commercials touting the privacy of Whatsapp, its encrypted messenger with a monthly user base of 3 billion people. Shortly after assuming that role, the lawsuit said, Baig “discovered systemic cybersecurity failures that posed serious risks to user data.” During a red-team exercise designed to find and exploit security vulnerabilities so they can be fixed, Baig said he found that roughly 1,500 engineers inside the messenger division had “unrestricted access to user data, including personal information covered by the FTC Privacy Order, and could move or steal such data without detection or audit trail.” In an email, a WhatsApp representative wrote: "Sadly this is a familiar playbook in which a former employee is dismissed for poor performance and then goes public with distorted claims that misrepresent the ongoing hard work of our team.
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