Some Of Twitter’s Source Code Was Leaked Online, Court Filing Shows

Some of Twitter's source code was leaked online court filing shows. Portions of Twitter's source code, the core building blocks of the social media platform, were leaked online, according to a court filing by the company. And made major operational challenges faced by the platform in recent months that include multiple technical glitches and outages. The information was shared on the co-chairing platform GitHub by a user named Free Speech Enthusiast. Microsoft owned GitHub, removed the leaked code and the leakers account from its site on Friday. After Twitter filed a takedown request under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Twitter has also issued a subpoena seeking information from GitHub to help identify the leaker, including their name, email, IP address and other details.

According to a filing made with the Northern District of California federal court. Twitter's subpoena seeks details about any users who may have downloaded, shared or modified the source code data uploaded by the leaker. The nature of the leaked source code and any potential risks it may cause to Twitter security are unclear. Earlier this month, Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced the platform will make all code used to recommend tweets open source on March 31st. Musk claimed Twitter's algorithm is overly complex and not fully understood internally. But added this transparency should allow the company to improve the quality of its recommendations and earn user trust. It is unclear whether the leak on GitHub has any leaks to Twitter's algorithm or Musk's announcement.

Since taking over Twitter last year, Musk has laid off more than 75% of the company's workforce, dropping its headcount from 7,500 to around 1,800. Staff cuts include senior engineers, teams that worked on Twitter's back end technology and people with institutional knowledge. This has led to severe glitches and instability for the platform, including a series of major outages.