Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, has filed a whistleblower
lawsuit alleging that Facebook deliberately failed to fix a bunch of security
flaws, in violation of its 2019 settlement agreement with the Federal Trade
Commission.
> The lawsuit, alleging violations of the whistleblower protection provision of
> the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed in 2002, said that in 2022, roughly 100,000
> WhatsApp users had their accounts hacked every day. By last year, the
> complaint alleged, as many as 400,000 WhatsApp users were getting locked out
> of their accounts each day as a result of such account takeovers...
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Neiman Lab has some good advice on how to leak a story to a journalist.
2006 AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein has died.