An ex-Meta veep has been sued by his former bosses for "wholesome disloyal and dishonest behavior" — and by that they mean he allegedly stole confidential documents to help him build and recruit colleagues for an AI cloud startup.
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Over the course of his 12-year tenure at the Facebook giant, Dipinder Singh Khurana – also known as TS Khurana – rose to the rank of vice president of infrastructure. He left the mega-company in June 2023 to take a position as senior veep of supply chain operations at a startup that remains in stealth mode and is not named in the lawsuit against him.
After telling Meta bosses he planned to leave, Khurana allegedly used his remaining time at the company to steal "a wealth of proprietary, highly sensitive, confidential and non-public documents about Meta's operations and employees," Meta alleged in a complaint filed in a state court in Northern California.
Those documents included sensitive internal details about Meta's "data centers, suppliers, vendors and artificial intelligence", it was claimed late last month. It went on to claim:
