MrBeast Sues Former Worker for Allegedly Stealing Firm Secrets and techniques

MrBeast has a brand new sport: work for Beast Industries with out stealing firm secrets and techniques. In accordance with Jimmy Donaldson (higher often called MrBeast) and his firm, a former worker failed the problem. In a criticism first spotted by Polygon, MrBeast is suing a former contractor for allegedly breaching his contract, stealing commerce secrets and techniques, and—definitely essentially the most creepy of the accusations—putting in hidden cameras all through the corporate places of work.

The alleged wrongdoer on the coronary heart of the criticism is Leroy Nabors, an IT contractor who was introduced on in 2023 to work on the Beast Industries IT community. He allegedly began engaged on servers that “housed post-production Beast content material” and he subcontracted out a number of the duties to Vine Networks, an IT firm managed by Nabors’ daughter. That apparently went nicely, as Nabors was moved to a “particular initiatives” crew in late 2023 as a full worker, working with the corporate’s improvement division tasked with dealing with “content material manufacturing,” “fundraising,” and “political advocacy”—all work that was outdoors of the IT duties that he was initially introduced in to do. Nabors labored on that crew till October 1, 2024, when he was fired in keeping with the criticism.

After Nabors was fired (the criticism doesn’t go into the main points as to the why of that termination), Beast Industries found that they’d allegedly downloaded “multiple thousand Beast confidential recordsdata from the Firm’s Google Vault,” together with paperwork that the corporate claims have been “extremely confidential” and contained details about “enterprise technique, monetary info, capitalization tables, financing paperwork, particular person worker private info, and different MrBeast mental property.” Nabors allegedly downloaded these recordsdata on September 23, 2024—simply over per week earlier than he was let go—as a result of he sensed that his firing was coming.

Along with discovering the paperwork had been downloaded, Beast personnel apparently additionally noticed cameras put in across the workplace after Nabors’ departure. In accordance with the criticism, Nabors was “well-known amongst colleagues to surreptitiously file conferences.” The criticism accuses Nabors of putting in and working the cameras.

Nabors and his daughter have an fascinating historical past. A 2022 lawsuit alleged that he “diverted thousands and thousands of {dollars} in income and earnings” from Edu-Web, an IT firm he began, to HSC Options, a competing firm run by his daughter.

However issues have been getting mighty litigious within the MrBeast universe these days, too. Donaldson and his firm have been sued last year by contestants on his Amazon present Beast Video games for sexual harassment and persistent mistreatment. A former worker of MrBeast additionally printed a video in 2024 calling the most important YouTuber round a “sociopath,” which led to Donaldson lawyering up and filing a cease-and-desist.