Attaullah Baig, the former head of security at WhatsApp, has filed a lawsuit against Meta for allegedly ignoring critical security flaws, claiming Meta staffers could access sensitive user data, The New York Times’ Cecilia Kang reports. Meta, which owns WhatsApp, also failed to adequately address the hacking of more than 100,000 accounts each day and rejected his proposals for security fixes, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. When Baig tried to warn Meta’s top leaders, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that users were being harmed by the security weaknesses, his managers retaliated and fired him in February, he claims.
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