"The engineer is believed to have written a program that could pull private images from Facebook accounts while evading the security checks Meta uses to flag suspicious internal access."
"Meta told the BBC that the breach was discovered more than a year ago, placing the discovery before April 2025, after which the company said it immediately dismissed the employee and referred the matter to law enforcement."
"What is clear from the timeline is that a period of several months elapsed between the discovery of the breach and the arrest in November 2025, consistent with a cross-jurisdictional investigation that involved the FBI before the referral reached UK law enforcement."
A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation for allegedly extracting around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing security measures. The engineer was arrested in November 2025 on suspicion of unauthorized access to computer material. Meta's internal security systems failed to prevent this breach, which was discovered over a year ago. The case is now handled by the Metropolitan Police's Cybercrime Unit after a referral from the FBI. The specifics of how the program evaded detection remain undisclosed.
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