Facebook security analyst is fired for using private data 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.

I've been made aware that a security engineer currently employed at Facebook is likely using privileged access to stalk women online.

I have Tinder logs. What should I do with this information?

- Jackie Stokes (@find_evil) April 30, 2018

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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