Police are probing the suicide of a young woman in Spain ­after hundreds of colleagues saw an intimate video involving her.

The woman committed suicide at her home on Saturday, a police spokesman told AFP on Wednesday, adding officers in Alcala de Henares near Madrid were probing "whether a privacy offense was committed."

According to Spanish media, an intimate video in which the 32-year-old appeared, filmed five years prior, had somehow been shared on WhatsApp and seen by many of the 2,500 employees at a factory near Madrid where she worked. The factory belongs to Italian industrial vehicle maker Iveco.

Investigators will try and determine whether those who shared the video can be held responsible for her death, the police spokesman said.

It is unclear who shared the footage, but so-called revenge porn, when ex-partners share intimate photos or videos without permission, has become a global problem.

One of her colleagues, told Spanish TV that people ­started looking at her, there were "­people who went to see her at her work station to see who the ­colleague was [in the video], she suffered big pressure."

According to Spanish media, the woman was married and had two young children.