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I hope the HN crowd doesn't write this off because it's Russia - employee abuse of customer data is all too common in tech:

- Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats: https://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-te...

- Lyft Investigates Allegation That Employees Abused Customer Data: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lyft-investigates-al...

- Uber Employees Allegedly Use Data to Stalk Exes, Celebs: https://www.newser.com/story/235409/lawsuit-uber-employees-u...

- Facebook Investigating Claim That Employee Used 'Privileged Access' to Cyber-Stalk Women: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-investigating-claim-that-employ...

- Snapchat Employees Abused Data Access to Spy on Users: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnva7/snapchat-employees...

- Yahoo Engineer Used Insider Access to Get Private Photos of Women: https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/59nwyk/yahoo-engineer-u...

Most occurrences likely never even make it into the news.

parent arkadiyt 5 years ago

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