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Attaullah Baig, the previous head of security at WhatsApp, has launched a whistleblower claim asserting that Facebook intentionally neglected to address a multitude of security vulnerabilities, breaching its 2019 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.
The claim, which points to infringements of the whistleblower protection clause of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act enacted in 2002, indicated that in 2022, approximately 100,000 WhatsApp users experienced account breaches each day. By the previous year, the report suggested that as many as 400,000 WhatsApp users were being locked out of their accounts daily due to these takeovers.
Baig also reportedly alerted superiors that data harvesting on the platform was a significant issue, as WhatsApp failed to adopt defenses that are typical on alternative messaging services, such as Signal and Apple Messages. Consequently, the ex-WhatsApp head approximated that images and identities of around 400 million user profiles were improperly extracted each day, frequently for the purpose of account impersonation frauds.
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