Key Twitter software code available online

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According to court documents from the weekend, Twitter also requested data from its programming platform Github about any users who might have seen or downloaded the computer code there.

Possible security vulnerabilities in code

Twitter has also launched an internal investigation, the New York Times reported Monday night, citing anonymous sources. One concern is that the program code contains undiscovered vulnerabilities that attackers could find and use to gain access to data or sabotage the platform.

The New York Times said Twitter executives only recently learned of the leak. This means the software code has been online for two months on Github. Because, according to Twitter, the account that published the data uploaded something there only once, on January 3, according to data from the platform.

connection with suspected layoffs

The extent of the leak initially remained unclear. Such basic program codes are among the best-kept secrets of an online platform. Twitter has claimed copyrights for the removal of the data from the web. At the same time, Twitter owner Elon Musk wants to make the algorithm that selects for individual users public by the end of March if tweets are sorted by software and not displayed in chronological order.

The New York Times wrote that Twitter suspects someone who worked at Twitter until last year was behind the leak. Musk laid off half of its nearly 7,000 employees after taking over Twitter for nearly $44 billion in October.

(SDA)

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