Security News > 2024 > March > Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints

After telling Meta bosses he planned to leave, Khurana allegedly used his remaining time at the corporation to steal "a trove of proprietary, highly sensitive, confidential, and non-public documents about Meta's business and employees," Meta claimed in a complaint filed in a northern California state court.

The Meta information that Khurana took also included documents and files concerning Meta's organizational redesign of its supply-chain group, capacity planning documents, and documents regarding Meta's business operations, metrics and sourcing-related expenses.

"Khurana not only uploaded Meta's documents to his personal Google Drive and Dropbox accounts, but he uploaded numerous of these documents into folders bearing the name of his new employer," Meta alleged.

One of the key documents cited in the complaint is an internal "Top Talent" spreadsheet that Meta said it had reason to believe was transferred from its systems to Khurana's work computer at his new company, an outfit described by Meta as "Seeking to provide AI cloud computing services at scale, including by designing and constructing data centers."

"At least eight employees that are listed in the 'Top Talent' spreadsheet left Meta to join Khurana's new employer between June and November 2023," Meta charges in the complaint.

"Meta takes this kind of egregious misconduct seriously. We will continue working to protect confidential business and employee information," a Meta spokesperson told The Register.

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