In the gleaming corridors of Meta’s Menlo Park headquarters, Attaullah Baig thought he had found his dream job. As head of security for WhatsApp, the Indian American executive was responsible for protecting the digital conversations of three billion users worldwide. Instead, he claims he discovered a company that systematically ignored critical security flaws and retaliated against him for trying to fix them.
On Monday, Baig filed a bombshell lawsuit accusing Meta of endangering billions of WhatsApp users by ignoring major security and privacy vulnerabilities—allegations that have thrust the 40-something cybersecurity veteran into the spotlight as Silicon Valley’s newest high-profile whistleblower.
Baig’s path to this moment began decades ago at one of India’s most prestigious engineering institutions. The National Institute of Technology Warangal (NIT-Warangal or NIT-W) is a public technical and research university located in Warangal, India. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. The foundation stone for this institute was laid by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in October 1959, the first in the chain of 31 NITs (formerly known as RECs) in the country.
Like many of his generation of Indian engineers, Baig leveraged his rigorous technical education at NIT Warangal as a springboard to America’s technology sector. According to Crunchbase has deep expertise in payments, fraud, e-commerce, data security, technology, etc. His...
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