MrBeast Sues Former Employee for Allegedly Stealing Company Secrets

MrBeast has a caller game: enactment for Beast Industries without stealing institution secrets. According to Jimmy Donaldson (better known arsenic MrBeast) and his company, a erstwhile worker failed the challenge. In a ailment archetypal spotted by Polygon, MrBeast is suing a erstwhile contractor for allegedly breaching his contract, stealing commercialized secrets, and—certainly the astir creepy of the accusations—installing hidden cameras passim the institution offices.

The alleged culprit astatine the bosom of the ailment is Leroy Nabors, an IT contractor who was brought connected successful 2023 to enactment connected the Beast Industries IT network. He allegedly started moving connected servers that “housed post-production Beast content” and helium subcontracted retired immoderate of the tasks to Vine Networks, an IT institution managed by Nabors’ daughter. That seemingly went well, arsenic Nabors was moved to a “special projects” squad successful precocious 2023 arsenic a afloat employee, moving with the company’s improvement section tasked with handling “content production,” “fundraising,” and “political advocacy”—all enactment that was extracurricular of the IT tasks that helium was initially brought successful to do. Nabors worked connected that squad until October 1, 2024, erstwhile helium was fired according to the complaint.

After Nabors was fired (the ailment doesn’t spell into the details arsenic to the wherefore of that termination), Beast Industries discovered that they had allegedly downloaded “more than 1 1000 Beast confidential files from the Company’s Google Vault,” including documents that the institution claims were “highly confidential” and contained accusation astir “business strategy, fiscal information, capitalization tables, financing documents, idiosyncratic worker idiosyncratic information, and different MrBeast intelligence property.” Nabors allegedly downloaded those files connected September 23, 2024—just implicit a week earlier helium was fto go—because helium sensed that his firing was coming.

In summation to discovering the documents had been downloaded, Beast unit seemingly besides spotted cameras installed astir the bureau aft Nabors’ departure. According to the complaint, Nabors was “well-known among colleagues to surreptitiously grounds meetings.” The ailment accuses Nabors of installing and operating the cameras.

Nabors and his girl person an absorbing history. A 2022 lawsuit alleged that helium “diverted millions of dollars successful gross and profits” from Edu-Net, an IT institution helium started, to HSC Solutions, a competing institution tally by his daughter.

But things person been getting mighty litigious successful the MrBeast beingness lately, too. Donaldson and his institution were sued past twelvemonth by contestants connected his Amazon amusement Beast Games for intersexual harassment and chronic mistreatment. A erstwhile worker of MrBeast besides published a video successful 2024 calling the biggest YouTuber astir a “sociopath,” which led to Donaldson lawyering up and filing a cease-and-desist.