Security News > 2023 > March > Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone

Meta's former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her phone.

"The Greek authorities and security services have at no time acquired or used the Predator surveillance software. To suggest otherwise is wrong," Giannis Oikonomou, the government spokesman, said.

According to the paper, Seaford worked at Meta between 2020 and 2022, abd saw her name on a leaked list of spyware targets in the Greek news media last November and took her phone for analysis at Citizen Lab.

Citizen Lab determined her phone had been infected by Predator spyware in September 2021 for at least two months.

The Times reported two people "With direct knowledge of the case" told its reporters that Seaford's phone had been wiretapped by the Greek spy agency from August 2021 well into 2022.

Seaford is the fourth known person, and the first American citizen, to file a lawsuit in Greece over the use of the snooping software.

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