Former Meta employee accused of downloading 30,000 private user images
THE SO WHAT
An ex-employee walking out with 30,000 private images is a reminder that insider risk dwarfs most external threats when you centralize user data at this scale. If you’re training models or running analytics on sensitive content, lock down internal access and logging this week — assume the next breach headline is about an insider, not a hacker.
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