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Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity executive says Meta endangered billions of users in new suit

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A former top cybersecurity executive at WhatsApp filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that parent company Meta disregarded internal flaws in the app’s digital defenses and exposed billions of its users.He says the company systematically violated cybersecurity regulations and retaliated against him for reporting the failures.Attaullah Baig, who served as the head of security for WhatsApp from 2021 to 2025, claims that approximately 1,500 engineers had unrestricted access to user data without proper oversight, potentially violating a US government order that imposed a $5bn penalty on the company in 2020.He also claimed the company failed to remedy the hacking and takeover of more than 100,000 accounts each day, ignoring his pleas and proposed fixes and choosing instead to prioritize user growth.The lawsuit, filed in US federal court in San Francisco, alleges Facebook owner Meta failed to implement basic cybersecurity measures, including adequate data handling and breach detection capabilities.

According to the 115-page complaint, Baig discovered through internal security testing that WhatsApp engineers could “move or steal user data” including contact information, IP addresses and profile photos “without detection or audit trail”,The filing claims Baig repeatedly raised concerns with senior executives, including the WhatsApp head, Will Cathcart, and Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg,Meta acquired Whatsapp for $19bn in 2014,The app now boasts three billion users, according to Meta,WhatsApp’s vice-president of communications, Carl Woog, wrote in a statement: “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.

”Baig alleges he faced escalating retaliation after his initial reports in 2021, including negative performance reviews, verbal warnings and ultimately termination in February 2025 for apparent “poor performance”,Sign up to TechScapeA weekly dive in to how technology is shaping our livesafter newsletter promotionThe company emphasized that Baig left due to poor performance, with multiple senior engineers independently validating that his work was below expectations,Meta noted in a statement that the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration dismissed Baig’s initial complaint, finding that it had not retaliated against him,Before joining Meta, Baig worked in cybersecurity roles at PayPal, Capital One and other major financial institutions,He filed complaints with federal regulators including the Securities and Exchange Commission before pursuing the current litigation.

The case adds to ongoing scrutiny of Meta’s data protection practices across its platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, serving billions of users globally.Meta agreed to the 2020 government settlement following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which involved improper harvesting of data from 50 million Facebook users.The consent order remains in effect until 2040.In his whistleblower complaint, Baig is requesting reinstatement, back pay and compensatory damages, along with potential regulatory enforcement action against the company.
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‘The Mother Teresa of Aussie supermarkets’: meet the woman cataloguing grocery deals on TikTok

Maya Angelou once said “a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” and when she said that, I can only assume she had Australian TikToker and micro-influencer Tennilles_deals in mind.Who exactly is Tennilles_deals? Firstly, she’s the Mother Teresa of Aussie supermarkets. Secondly, I don’t know anything about her personally because this savvy queen doesn’t market herself like your average influencer. She lets her work speak for itself.The work in question? Weekly uploads of POV-style videos where Tennille meticulously goes through major supermarkets to show you what’s on special that week

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Drawings reveal Victorian proposal for London’s own Grand Central station

The vaulted arches of New York’s Grand Central station are recognisable even to those who have never taken a train into the Big Apple. But they could very easily have been a sight visible in central London.Shelved 172-year-old architectural drawings by Perceval Parsons show how he envisioned a new London railway connecting the growing number of lines coming into the city to a huge main terminal by the Thames.The drawings of London’s own Grand Central Station, which are being put on open sale for the first time to mark the 200th anniversary of the first public passenger railway, show a scheme that would have given the capital of the UK a very different look today.The station was to be located at Great Scotland Yard, close to the modern-day Embankment tube station, and would have boasted an ornamental frontage about 800ft (245 metres) in length

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Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘People think music was better in the old days, to which I say: bollocks!’

You’ve just put out a coffee table book of photographs of your early years with Blur. I imagine you didn’t have too many expectations at the time. Why had you stopped taking photos by the time the band blew up?I told myself that I was not experiencing life, that I was looking at it through the lens of the camera. But what really happened was, after a few years, things stopped being bright and shiny and new and exciting. It was pretty clear that we were going to have a career, that this wasn’t just a 15-minute Warholian burst of fame

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Gems review – dazzling technique elevates LA Dance Project’s contemporary ballet trilogy

Australia sees so little international contemporary dance – considered too far and too expensive a journey, with too small a dedicated dance audience to make it worthwhile. What does appear is mostly in Melbourne and Sydney. So it’s a curious coup for Brisbane festival to land the second visit to Australia by L.A. Dance Project – the troupe founded by the former New York City Ballet principal Benjamin Millepied – after the Sydney Opera House’s presentation of his contemporary, genderqueer Romeo and Juliet Suite last year

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The Guide #207: How Britain embraced The Simpsons, America’s true first family

Mum wouldn’t have Bart Simpson in our house. When, 35 years ago this month, The Simpsons first drifted across the Atlantic and on to UK screens, they brought with them a bad reputation. In the US, Matt Groening’s peerless animation had quickly become a ratings sensation after it debuted in 1989, but it was also a controversy magnet, particularly over its breakout delinquent star. The Simpsons was seen by the more conservative end of the US media as a bad influence on kids (a viewpoint famously echoed by President George HW Bush a few years later with his call for American families to be more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons). Plenty of US schools banned a massive-selling T-shirt with Bart declaring himself an “underachiever and proud of it, man”

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From On Swift Horses to David Byrne: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

ChristyOut now Following a prize-winning premiere at the Berlinale, this Irish drama starring Danny Power has been feted as an auspicious feature debut for director Brendan Canty. Telling the tale of two estranged brothers in Knocknaheeny, Cork, it’s a social-realist breakout hit.On Swift HorsesOut now Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Lee (Will Poulter) are newlyweds who move from Kansas to California in the 1950s, with Lee’s brother, Julius (Jacob Elordi). A bond emerges between Muriel and Julius – however, this isn’t a typical love triangle, but an exploration of same-sex attraction in a time and place where that could be life-threatening.The Conjuring: Last RitesOut now Something wicked this way comes: the ninth and (allegedly) final instalment of the Conjuring franchise, based on the (alleged) exploits of paranormal experts Lorraine and Ed Warren, played by Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, who are investigating the Smurl hauntings of Pennsylvania

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Amazon fires 150 unionized third-party drivers, Teamsters says

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Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity executive says Meta endangered billions of users in new suit

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Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says

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Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package

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Trump hosts US tech leaders at White House dinner – minus Elon Musk

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Head of UK’s beleaguered Alan Turing Institute resigns

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