WPP Hires Lawyers to Probe Emails Sent to Current, Former Employees Following Martin Sorrell's Exit

WPP has hired two outside law firms to investigate several anonymous, encrypted emails sent to its current and former employees, which came from a WhatsApp group that included onetime executive assistants to Martin Sorrell, the holding company’s founder and ex-CEO who abruptly stepped down in April, the Financial Times first reported.

The Financial Times (FT) and Wall Street Journal both obtained the emails that they said contain portions of messages between current and former employees but did not reveal much else of the content. The