Parts of Twitter’s source code have been leaked online, possibly by a disgruntled employee.<\/p>\n
The New York Times says<\/a> the data theft was revealed in a legal action on Friday, when Twitter sent a copyright infringement notice to GitHub, a platform where software developers work on and post code. GitHub complied and took down the code that day, says the news report.<\/p>\n It was unclear how long the leaked code had been online, but it appeared to have been public for at least several months, the Times said.<\/p>\n Twitter also asked a California court to order GitHub to identify the person who shared the code, and any other individuals who downloaded it, the news report says.<\/p>\n According to the Times, Twitter executives “have surmised that whoever was responsible left the San Francisco-based company last year.”<\/p>\n According to NBC News,<\/a> a GitHub a user identified as \u201cFreeSpeechEnthusiast\u201d posted excerpts of the code. Bloomberg News says<\/a> FreeSpeechEnthusiast’s GitHub account was opened at the beginning of the year. The only thing posted to that account since then was the Twitter partial code.<\/p>\n It isn’t known if that person is the one who stole the code from Twitter.<\/p>\n The Times news report says executives worry that in the wrong hands, the source code could reveal security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n Investor and entrepreneur Elon Musk bought Twitter for US$44 million in October, 2022 and immediately began overhauling the company. Since then, by the Times’ estimate, about 75 percent of the company\u2019s 7,500 employees have been laid off or fired.<\/p>\n Separately, the technology news site The Information says<\/a> Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants which would value the company at roughly US$20 billion. That’s less than half what he paid to buy the company. “It was a concrete acknowledgment of how much Twitter\u2019s value has dropped since the deal,” the news story says.<\/p>\n The post Twitter source code leaked, demands GitHub reveal who posted it there<\/a> first appeared on IT World Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York Times says the code posted on GitHub had been there for months. raising securit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[425,393,275,44],"class_list":["post-36982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-data-breach","tag-security-strategies","tag-top-story","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36991,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions\/36991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}