Police investigating as former worker is suspected of having designed program to avoid security checks
A former worker at Meta is under criminal investigation on suspicion of downloading about 30,000 private Facebook images.
He was employed by the social media company when it is believed he designed a program to be able to access the pictures while avoiding internal security checks.
A specialist detective from the Metropolitan police’s cybercrime unit is investigating the alleged invasion of Facebook users’ privacy.
Meta told the Press Association that the suspected breach had been discovered more than a year ago and that the company itself had referred the matter to police in the UK.
