Over the past year, Meta Platforms* fired more than 20 employees and contractors for the alleged compromise and capture of user accounts. About this reported last week. Some of the cases of violations were associated with bribery, the portal reports with reference to sources and documents.
Among the dismissed there were contractors – security companies that worked at the company’s facilities. They gained access to an internal instrument with which employees helped “acquaintances of users” gain access to accounts if they forgot the password or their accounts were blocked.
a system called OOPS (Online Operations) is not available to most users of the platform, which led to a large number of intermediaries who are associated with insiders that can lose their forgotten password or restore the user account.
According to the journal, this method of restoring the accounts of the social media META* is available for employees, their friends and families, as well as business partners and public figures. In addition, about 50,270 applications in 2020 were submitted to restore accounts.
In one case, the former security contractor allegedly helped unnamed third parties compare Instagram*accounts. The contractor claimed that he was forced to submit OOPS reports to reset the account.
Another contractor dropped several user accounts by order of hackers. For his services, the contractor received a reward at BTC.
meta* noted that the purchase or sale of accounts or payment of the account restoration services is a violation of service conditions facebook*.
*META and the company’s products (Instagram and Facebook) are recognized as extremist organizations; Their activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation.