Twitter recently went public in a very unexpected way after company officials discovered a significant leak of the social media platform’s source code.
New report from The New York Times(opens in new tab) It turns out that an unspecified part of its source code (basically the code that makes the site work) has been published on Github.
Twitter filed a copyright claim and removed the code last Friday, but according to the Times, the code posted by an unidentified mysterious user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” has been on the site for “months.” was published in
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A big concern here for Twitter, both as a company and as a social platform, is that the source code is open, which could make the service easier for rogues to abuse. Twitter is already rife with high-profile hacks over the past two weeks. duck dynasty The band Smash Mouth was stolen and used in a MacBook sales scam.
And it hasn’t been an exceptional month for site security until Twitter turned off text-based two-factor authentication last week.
Twitter has asked a federal district court in Northern California to compel Github to identify the person who posted the code on its site. The company executive in charge of an internal investigation into the leak believes it’s likely someone who recently left the company, reports The New York Times. ‘s layoffs affect thousands of employees, but this doesn’t seem like a huge leap in logic.
