Meta sues “brazenly disloyal” former exec over stolen confidential docs

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A recently unsealed court filing has revealed that Meta has sued a former senior employee for "brazenly disloyal and dishonest conduct" while leaving Meta for an AI data startup called Omniva that The Information has described as "mysterious."

According to Meta, its former vice president of infrastructure, Dipinder Singh Khurana (also known as T.S.), allegedly used his access to "confidential, non-public, and highly sensitive" information to steal more than 100 internal documents in a rushed scheme to poach Meta employees and borrow Meta's business plans to speed up Omniva's negotiations with key Meta suppliers.

Meta believes that Omniva—which Data Center Dynamics (DCD) reported recently "pivoted from crypto to AI cloud"—is "seeking to provide AI cloud computing services at scale, including by designing and constructing data centers." But it was held back by a "lack of data center expertise at the top," DCD reported.