Facebook fires security analyst accused of using access to stalk women

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Already under intense scrutiny for leaking sensitive data belonging to more than 87 million users, Facebook said it fired a security engineer accused of using his company position to stalk women.

The allegations surfaced Sunday in a series of tweets from Jackie Stokes, founder of a firm called Spyglass Security.

Stokes included portions of a purported discussion between the unnamed Facebook employee and someone else over the Tinder dating app. In it, the employee said he was a “security analyst” whose role in trying to identify who hackers were in real life made him a “professional stalker.” He then told the person, “so out of habit I have to say you are hard to find lol.” Stokes later tweeted that the exchange was only a limited snippet of the overall conversation.

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Source: Ars Technica – Facebook fires security analyst accused of using access to stalk women