A Delta Airlines employee is accused of using a child’s iPad to record pornographic images of himself that were uploaded to the cloud.

A month after the family lost the item, wrapped in a pink Peppa Pig case, explicit images of the employee allegedly started appearing in the device’s shared cloud storage.

The child is said to have discovered the images when searching for the missing iPad using the Find My app.

According to a lawsuit filed by passengers Tory and Brooke Brewer, of South Carolina, at first, the pictures simply showed the Delta employee in uniform.

Yet the images became increasingly more explicit.

“In the videos, the Delta employee is masturbating while in his Delta uniform and wearing his Delta name badge,” the lawsuit claims.

“Before their trip, during their travel, and after their journey ended, the plaintiffs had no expectation that they would be subjected to vile and disturbing pornographic material as a result of their choice to be ticketed passengers on one of the defendants’ flights.”

Employee ‘hacked into family Amazon account’

The Brewer family is being represented by lawyer Tola Familoni of the Motley Rice law firm.

He told the Guardian: “What should have been a fun family getaway was riddled with confusion and anxiety over unauthorised access to their personal devices, a breach of privacy, and the transmission of highly inappropriate, explicit video recordings sent through their child’s personal devices.”

The lawsuit claims the incident happened in July 2023 after the Brewer family flew from Charleston to New York City’s John F Kennedy Airport.

The lawsuit alleges that the Delta employee, who is not named in the legal filings, was also able to hack his way into the family’s Amazon account.

Once inside the account, he allegedly set a new profile under the name “Gay”.

The lawsuit says the family’s children saw what had happened and alerted their parents

In a statement to The Telegraph, Delta said it was aware of the legal case.

“The accused individual is not a Delta employee but one of a vendor company,” it added.

“We have zero tolerance for unlawful behaviour of any kind but will decline to comment further on this pending litigation.”

The Brewer family is suing both Delta and Unifi Aviation, a ground handling and aviation services company. They are alleging negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress, intentional infliction of emotional distress, sexual assault and harassment.