Parts of Twitter’s source code leaked online: Report
Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the social network’s fundamental computer code — were leaked online, the social media company said in a lawsuit filed Sunday, first reported by The New York Times.
According to a legal document filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development, to remove the code it was posted on.
The platform is complying and said the content had been disabled as per the application. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code to GitHub’s systems without Twitter’s permission.
The San Francisco-based Twitter stated in the application that the publications infringe the copyrights owned by Twitter.
The leak poses more challenges for billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion and took the company private. Since then, it has been in chaos, with huge layoffs and advertisers fleeing.
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Musk’s mass firings on Twitter and is trying to access his internal communications as part of an ongoing review of the social media’s privacy and cybersecurity practices, according to documents described in a congressional report.
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