Over the course of his 12-year employment at the Facebook giant, Dipinder Singh Khurana - also known as T.S. Khurana - rose to the rank of vice-president of infrastructure.
He left the mega-corp in June 2023 to take a position as senior veep of supply-chain operations at a startup still in stealth mode and not named in the lawsuit against him.
Among other information taken, Khurana took copies of Meta's contracts with certain key suppliers and vendors, which included Meta's pricing information and terms.
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.
The information that Khurana took also included documents regarding Meta employees, their levels, performance information, potential promotion information, and detailed compensation data for employees in Meta's Infrastructure organization.
According to the Instagram titan, the veep transferred files from Meta systems to those external cloud accounts.
As alleged above, among the documents Khurana apparently took to share with his startup were supplier and vendor contracts, planning documents, payroll and recruiting files, compensation and performance data, business operations documents, and information relating to Meta's supply chain operations and employees.
Meta alleges, several of Khurana's Meta-mates were contacted by the exec and his upstart to discuss positions at this new company.
Additional Meta-mates were also contacted about jobs with Khurana's new employer, but it's not clear whether they accepted, we're told.
Meta has leveled five charges against Khurana: Breach of contract, breach of the duty of loyalty, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, and breaking California's computer crime laws.
The Facebook goliath is asking that Khurana be forced to pay damages and disgorge any money or benefits he obtained as a result of his alleged stealing of company secrets.
Meta's allegations have yet to be answered in court by Khurana or his lawyers.
We reached out to Khurana as well, and haven't heard back yet.
This Cyber News was published on go.theregister.com. Publication date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:13:04 +0000