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, NBC News reported.
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 (gender unspecified) 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.
I really, really hope I’m wrong about this. pic.twitter.com/NDkOptx8Hv
— Jackie Stokes
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/02/facebook-engineer-and-professional-stalker-reportedly-fired-over-creepy-tinder-messages/
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