Mr. Beast is suing a former employee for breach of company contract and misappropriation of trade secrets after the employee allegedly stole thousands of confidential files and installed hidden cameras in Beast Industries offices.
Mr. Beast, legally Jimmy Donaldson, is suing former employee Leroy Nabors for allegedly stealing company secrets in the form of confidential documents.
Nabors supposedly stole financial information, data regarding business transactions, private employee compensation data, and information related to Beast’s investors.
The former employee was originally employed in the channel's IT department and was then moved to the company’s development team.
Due to the nature of Nabors’ previous role (in the IT department), he was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Things weren’t going well for Nabors, and he was subsequently fired, which he allegedly knew “was coming,” according to the lawsuit.
As he prepared for his termination, he supposedly exfiltrated a host of sensitive information and transferred it to an “unidentified device.”
“Nabors then tried to cover these actions up by wiping his laptop, which had access to those files and records of his actions,” the lawsuit reads.
However, a forensic investigation was ordered, which revealed that the wipe hadn’t been successful, as deletion attempts failed, and some of the exfiltrated information was identified in the search.
Donaldson then confronted Nabors about the downloaded information, where he allegedly lied, saying that on his last day of employment, all his files had been wiped.
The lawsuit describes this statement as “demonstrably false” because Nabors attempted to erase this information several days before his termination.
Nabors dug himself deeper into his lies and said that all the information had been downloaded in a “routine backup” he executed as a “normal course of business.”
While this could seem plausible, the company does not have a routine backup policy, certainly not involving thousands of confidential documents, the lawsuit alleges.
To add insult to injury, Nabors has been syncing data to a DropBox account, which he could access once he left the company.
Alongside exfiltrating all this information, Nabors had allegedly set up hidden cameras around Donaldson’s offices.
The company employs around 350 people, and according to employees, no one was aware of the hidden cameras.
But Nabors was allegedly “well known” for recording company meetings, presumably when he was not meant to.
Furthermore, Nabor's daughter, who is the sole managing member of Vine Networks (Vine), was contracted by the defendant to take care of Beast Industries' entire IT network.
Lawyers believe that Vine may have been in control of the cameras.
Along with the cameras, employees at Beast Industries found a “mini-PC attached to Beast’s company server.”
The only app installed on this program was Synchro, an application that gives users remote access and control of the network.
“A review of the mini-PC showed at least two separate logins by accounts affiliated with Nabors,” the lawsuit reads.
Neither Donaldson nor Beast personnel had allowed or told Nabors to install the mini-PC or use it to access the company’s servers.
Mr. Beast is suing Nabors on the grounds of misappropriating trade secrets and breach of contract.
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