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When Atafullah Baig Baig 2021 became WhatsApp Head of Security, a dream came true for him, he told the whistleblower organization PSSST.ORG (external link).The fact that he talks to this organization about his job in 2025 is related to what he saw after his start at WhatsApp. In his first week, Baig already realized that exactly six of the 1,200 WhatsApp developers were planned for security.In his opinion, it would take at least 200 developers with a focus on this area for a platform such as WhatsApp, with several billion users. Little interest in user security In the further course of his job, which ended in February 2025 with his discharge, the impression was solidified, according to his statement, that the security of the users for WhatsApp or Meta was hardly of interest - only user growth was important. On his part, internal warnings were struck.Although, according to Baig, some of the security problems do not "only" endangered users, but also violated the guidelines of supervisory authorities and laws.At the beginning of September, with the support of PSST.ORG in California, he filed a lawsuit against Meta, as the "New York Times" (external link) reports. Concrete allegations Baig is by no means in the vague in his allegations.Specifically, he discovered that around 1,500 meta employees had extensive access to private WhatsApp user data.It was not about chats and their content, but about very sensitive information.Among other things, the employees could see who a user writes and access location data. Another serious accusation concerns the mass hacking of WhatsApp accounts, which Meta largely ignores according to Baig.According to his entries, hackers take on hundreds of thousands of WhatsApp accounts every day-and Meta practically does nothing to help users get their accounts back. This is annoying for the chopped and also means danger for others: after all, the hackers can pretend to be the chopped person and exclude their contacts with all kinds of fraud stitches.WhatsApp is a paradise for fraudsters, says Baig.Attempts by his team to reduce dangers for users in this regard by technical changes have been blocked by Meta.According to Baig, there are misconduct when managing and storing user data as well as monitoring and finding security gaps and problems. Meta sees revenge campaign WhatsApp mother Meta does not want to know about the allegations."Sad, this is the old lyre by a former employee who was released because of poor performance and then goes to the public with misleading claims, which the hard work of our team is wrong," said a meta spokesman for the "Times".On Wednesday, according to the newspaper (external link), three republican META chief Zuckerberg asked Zuckerberg to comment on the allegations. Attafullah Baig was released from Meta in February 2025.The reason was "weak performance".At the end of 2024, Baig-after internal information up to meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, had remained without consequences-had directed an official complaint to US authorities.He sees his release as retaliation for his years of warnings and suggestions.