Facebook engineer fired for creepy Tinder stalking messages- TomoNews
- 6 years ago
SOCIAL MEDIA — Social media giant Facebook has recently fired an engineer who allegedly used his privileges to stalk women online.
Confirmed by Techcrunch, Facebook launched an investigation into a claim made by cybersecurity expert Jackie Stokes, who said the person was a security engineer and "likely using privileged access" to find women.
According to the excerpt of a Tinder conversation posted by Stokes on Twitter, the engineer mentioned to a woman that he is a security analyst.
Then he told the woman that he's a "professional stalker" as he also tries to find out who the hackers are in real life. The "professional stalker" then confessed that he stalked the woman and admitting it's hard to find out what she is like in real life.
Stokes said through the man's Tinder profile, Linkedin, and Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos's connections on encryption key directory Keybase, the man is indeed an Facebook employee.
After the exchange was revealed, Stamos said the pro stalker was immediately fired from his fancy Silicon Valley job.
The social media giant later responded to the incident by saying that access is logged when employees request data outside their purview, and they are warned when the need for access is confirmed.
Stamos added that Facebook has strict policy controls and technical restrictions so that employees can only access certain data they need for their jobs, and said whoever abuses the controls will be fired.
The incident has become the newest case for potential abuse of user information as Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in early April that he made a huge mistake for not focusing on this aspect.
Confirmed by Techcrunch, Facebook launched an investigation into a claim made by cybersecurity expert Jackie Stokes, who said the person was a security engineer and "likely using privileged access" to find women.
According to the excerpt of a Tinder conversation posted by Stokes on Twitter, the engineer mentioned to a woman that he is a security analyst.
Then he told the woman that he's a "professional stalker" as he also tries to find out who the hackers are in real life. The "professional stalker" then confessed that he stalked the woman and admitting it's hard to find out what she is like in real life.
Stokes said through the man's Tinder profile, Linkedin, and Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos's connections on encryption key directory Keybase, the man is indeed an Facebook employee.
After the exchange was revealed, Stamos said the pro stalker was immediately fired from his fancy Silicon Valley job.
The social media giant later responded to the incident by saying that access is logged when employees request data outside their purview, and they are warned when the need for access is confirmed.
Stamos added that Facebook has strict policy controls and technical restrictions so that employees can only access certain data they need for their jobs, and said whoever abuses the controls will be fired.
The incident has become the newest case for potential abuse of user information as Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in early April that he made a huge mistake for not focusing on this aspect.