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Twitter Source Code Leaked and Shared Online, Giving Hackers Access to User Data

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The New York Times.On Friday, Twitter sent a copyright infringement notice to GitHub, which took it down the same day. Although it isn’t clear exactly how long the leaked code had been online, all signs point to it being at least several months.The filing also reveals that Twitter had contacted the U.S.

District Court for the Northern District of California, asking it to investigate who specifically shared the code and any others who downloaded it.

Twitter has since launched an internal investigation into uncovering the source of the leak, and has learned that the culprit responsible left the company last year, the NY Times reports.

That casts a very wide net, as approximately 75% of Twitter’s 7,500 employees have resigned or were laid off in that time since Elon Musk’s purchase of the company for $44 billion in October 2022.According to the NY Times, a big concern for Twitter is that with security vulnerabilities now exposed, it could have given hackers an easy way into mining user data or even shutting down the site altogether.This news comes as Musk continues to face fiscal and structural challenges with his social networking platform.

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