- Meta is suing a former VP following his decision to join an AI startup.
- The lawsuit claims the former worker took sensitive documents about Meta's business and employees.
- Meta claims that eight employees listed in the documents have joined the same AI startup.
Meta is suing a former executive over his defection to an AI startup.
In the lawsuit first reported by Bloomberg, Meta accused Dipinder Singh Khurana of taking private documents with him when he left the company.
The suit alleges Khurana, a former vice-president of infrastructure, violated his contract by taking a "trove of proprietary, highly sensitive, confidential, and non-public documents about Meta's business and employees."
Meta called the move a "stunning" betrayal and accused Khurana of being "brazenly disloyal."
It claimed Khurana uploaded internal documents, including the company's "Top Talent" dossier, to his personal Google Drive and Dropbox just before departing.
"Taken together, the sensitive, confidential, and non-public information in these spreadsheets provides an inside view as to how Meta makes compensation decisions and also provides key information regarding not just the names of Meta employees but their levels, performance, and skills at Meta," the complaint said.
The Information reported that Khurana now works for Omniva, a company operating in the Middle East that aims to lower the
cost of artificial intelligence computing. In the suit, Meta claimed that eight employees listed in the documents also left to join the AI startup.
Meta told Business Insider in a statement that it "takes this kind of egregious misconduct seriously. We will continue working to protect confidential business and employee information."
Khurana did not respond to a request for comment from BI made via LinkedIn.