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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/former-meta-security-chief-sues-company-for-privacy-violations-professional-retaliation-2.jpg?resize=1265,843 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\"><figcaption> A picture taken on March 23, 2022 in Moscow shows the US instant messaging software Whatsapp logo on a smartphone screen.(Photo by -\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"86.708574529667\"><body readability=\"174.90940856736\"><\/p>\n<p>Meta is being sued by its former head of security, who claims the company ignored repeated warnings that its messaging platform WhatsApp was riddled with security vulnerabilities and privacy violations, and retaliated against him for raising these concerns, ultimately firing him.<\/p>\n<p>Attaullah Baig was the head of security at Meta from 2021 until this past April. Baig, who has held cybersecurity positions at PayPal, Capital One and Whole Foods Market, claims that he was issued a verbal warning Nov. 22, 2024, and was fired by Meta on April 11, 2025, with the company citing poor performance as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>But in the lawsuit, he alleges the real reason he was fired was that soon after joining Meta in September 2021, he \u201cdiscovered systemic cybersecurity failures that posed serious risks to user data and violated Meta\u2019s legal obligations\u201d to the federal government under a 2020 Federal Trade Commission privacy order and federal securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough a \u2018Red Team Exercise\u2019 conducted with Meta\u2019s Central Security team, Mr. Baig discovered that approximately 1,500 WhatsApp engineers had unrestricted access to user data, including sensitive personal information covered by the FTC Privacy Order, and could move or steal such data without detection or audit trail,\u201d the complaint stated.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and names Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and four other company executives as defendants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Baig, he attempted to notify Meta executives on five separate occasions over the next year, raising concerns with his supervisors and highlighting information gaps \u2014 like what user data the company was collecting, where and how it was stored, and who had access \u2014 that made it impossible to comply with the consent order and federal privacy regulations.<\/p>\n<p>He also created a \u201ccomprehensive product requirements document\u201d for Meta\u2019s privacy team that would have included a data classification and handling system to better comply with the 2020 order.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, his supervisor \u201cconsistently ignored these concerns and directed Mr. Baig to focus on less critical application security tasks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Baig understood that Meta\u2019s culture is like that of a cult where one cannot question any of the past work especially when it was approved by someone at a higher level than the individual who is raising the concern,\u201d the complaint alleged.<\/p>\n<p>In August and September 2022, Baig again convened a group of Meta and WhatsApp executives to lay out his concerns, including the lack of security resources and the potential for Meta and WhatsApp to face legal consequences. He noted that WhatsApp had just 10 engineers focused on security, while comparably sized companies usually had teams approaching or exceeding 200 people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He also outlined \u2014 at his supervisor\u2019s request \u2014 a number of core digital vulnerabilities the company was facing.<\/p>\n<p>Among the allegations: WhatsApp did not have an inventory of what user data it collected, potentially violating California state law, the European Union\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the 2020 privacy order with the federal government. The company could not conclusively determine where it was storing user data and gave thousands of Meta engineers \u201cunfettered access\u201d without any business justifications.<\/p>\n<p>The company also had no security operations center and apparently didn\u2019t have any method of logging or tracking when those engineers sought to access user data, the lawsuit alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Baig also claimed that approximately 100,000 WhatsApp users were suffering account takeovers daily, and the company had no process to prevent or deter such compromises.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, Baig claims he was subject to \u201congoing retaliation\u201d from his supervisors for blowing the whistle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three days after initially disclosing his concerns, Baig\u2019s direct supervisor told him he was \u201cnot performing well\u201d and his work had quality issues. It was the first time he had received negative feedback; that same supervisor had, just three months earlier, praised Baig for his \u201cextreme focus and clarity on project scope, timeline, etc.\u201d In September 2022, the supervisor changed Baig\u2019s employment performance rating to \u201cNeeds Support.\u201d Subsequent performance ratings specifically cited Baig\u2019s cybersecurity complaints as a basis for downgrading his score.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, after reviewing the security report that was explicitly requested of him by executives, his supervisor Suren Verma allegedly told him on a video call that the report was \u201cthe worst doc I have seen in my life\u201d and issued a warning that Meta executives \u201cwould fire him for writing a document like this.\u201d Verma also reportedly threatened to withhold Baig\u2019s executive compensation package and discretionary equity.<\/p>\n<p>Baig\u2019s allegations closely mirror that of another security whistleblower at a major social media company. Around the same time that Baig was at Meta, the top security executive at Twitter \u2014 now X \u2014 was documenting similar problems. <\/p>\n<p>Peiter Zatko, a legendary hacker turned cybersecurity specialist brought in to improve Twitter\u2019s security, quickly determined that the company\u2019s data infrastructure was so decentralized that executives could not reliably answer questions about the data they collected or where it was stored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, they don\u2019t know what data they have, where it lives, or where it came from and so unsurprisingly, they can\u2019t protect it,\u201d Zatko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/analysis\/twitter-whistleblower-lack-of-access-data-controls-invite-exploitation\">told<\/a> the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2022. \u201cThat leads to the second problem: employees need to have too much access to too much data on too many systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the allegations against WhatsApp, Zatko told Congress that when he first arrived at Twitter in 2020 he quickly realized the company was \u201cmore than a decade behind industry security standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Baig\u2019s lawsuit, in one meeting WhatsApp\u2019s global head of public policy, Jonathan Lee, remarked that the vulnerabilities highlighted by Baig were serious enough that it might lead to WhatsApp facing similar consequences as \u201cMudge to Twitter\u201d \u2014 referring to Zatko.<\/p>\n<p>Baig continued his warnings through March 2023, telling executive leadership that he believed the company\u2019s lackluster efforts around cybersecurity directly violated the 2020 FTC consent order.<\/p>\n<p>After dealing with what he called \u201cescalating retaliation\u201d from his supervisors, Baig wrote to Zuckerberg and Meta general counsel Jennifer Newstead on Jan. 2, 2024, warning that the company\u2019s central security team had falsified security reports to \u201ccover up\u201d their lack of security. Later that month, Baig told his supervisor he was documenting Meta\u2019s \u201cfalse commitment\u201d to complying with Ireland\u2019s data protection laws, citing specific examples where user data was readily accessible to tens of thousands of employees.<\/p>\n<p>Such warnings continued throughout 2024, with Baig reiterating past concerns and bringing up new ones about the company\u2019s compliance with privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, Baig filed a TCR (Tip, Complaint or Referral) form with the Securities and Exchange Commission outlining his concerns and lack of remediation by Meta, and filed a complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for \u201csystematic retaliation\u201d by the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baig was told by Meta in February 2025 that he would be included in upcoming performance-based layoffs, with the company citing \u201cpoor performance\u201d and inability to collaborate as the primary reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.4964539007092\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/former-meta-security-chief-sues-company-for-privacy-violations-professional-retaliation-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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