A former Meta employee is facing criminal investigation following allegations that he downloaded approximately 30,000 private Facebook images. The engineer, who was working for the social media giant at the time, is suspected of designing a programme to access personal pictures while bypassing internal security checks.
A specialist detective from the Metropolitan Police’s cybercrime unit has launched an inquiry into the alleged mass invasion of Facebook users’ privacy. Meta confirmed that the suspected breach was discovered over a year ago, prompting the company to refer the matter to police in the UK.
