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Facebook Terminates Engineer for Using Company Data to Stalk Women on Tinder

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @11:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the professional? dept.

takyon writes:

Facebook engineer and 'professional stalker' reportedly fired over creepy Tinder messages

There's no shortage of Facebook news this week on account of F8, but this creepy Facebook-adjacent event with a good outcome seems worth noting. An engineer accused of abusing his access to data at the company in Tinder messages has been fired, Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch today.

The issue arose over the weekend: Jackie Stokes, founder of Spyglass Security, explained on Twitter that someone she knew had received some rather creepy messages from someone she personally confirmed was a Facebook engineer.

The engineer described themselves as a "professional stalker," which however accurate it may be (they attempt to unmask hackers) is probably not the best way to introduce yourself to a potential partner. They then implied that they had been employing their professional acumen in pursuit of identifying their new quarry.

Also at Motherboard.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Friday May 04 2018, @11:48PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday May 04 2018, @11:48PM (#675914) Journal

    It's tough to find a Facebook user around here, much less an employee.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @11:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 04 2018, @11:58PM (#675917)

    False, it's actually very easy - MDC mentioned using FB, and he's all over the place :)

  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 07 2018, @12:52AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday May 07 2018, @12:52AM (#676508) Homepage Journal

    I use Facebook. It's a fantastic company, fantastic place of fantastic people. Although Brad Parscale does most of my tweets there, to be honest with you.