A former WhatsApp security chief alleges that Meta’s obsession with performance reviews left millions of users vulnerable and also cost him his job. Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, sued Meta earlier this month, alleging that the company ignored major privacy risks and that he faced retaliation for his cybersecurity disclosures. WhatsApp.Dado Ruvic/Reuters
TOI Tech Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Aug 30, 2025, 09:56 IST Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s legal battle intensifies as Musk’s lawyers attempt to block OpenAI from acquiring documents from Meta…
WhatsApp has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta says. In Singapore, for example, users have also been told by police to be wary of any unusual requests they receive on messaging apps.
The partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has raised millions of dollars for an artificial intelligence startup hoping to introduce a product that can be used in medical testing and other settings, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the endeavor who could not speak publicly because the company has not yet officially launched. Philip Pacheco/Getty Images
Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior. Image Credits: ALLISON ROBBERT /POOL /AFP / Getty Images
A Cellebrite device hacking a smartphone. The FBI used tech from Cellebrite, which had to provide the agency with unreleased software. Had the shooter used a newer iPhone, the feds may have been out of luck, leaked documents suggest. (Credit: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
Nigeria’s consumer protection agency, FCCPC, has imposed a $220 million fine, which is about N330 billion on Meta Platforms Inc., owners of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, for allegedly abusing the data of their Nigerian users.
A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive patient data stolen from an NHS blood testing company.
St Thomas’ was one of the affected NHS trusts and others.
Four years after the top two Theranos executives, Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, were first indicted together on a dozen federal fraud charges stemming from their time heading up the failed blood testing startup, both have been convicted by juries.
Ping Dong, A psychology researcher already under fire for several questionable studies has had her PhD revoked by a university tribunal that found it likely she fabricated data in her thesis.
