Social networking giant Twitter recently suffered a significant setback when significant parts of its source code were posted online and made public.
The corporation immediately proceeded to notify GitHub, an online collaboration platform for software engineers, of a copyright infringement to remove the stolen code from the site. It is not known how long the code was available online, although it appears to have been accessible to the public for several months.
Twitter has filed a petition with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California requesting that the court order GitHub to disclose the identity of the person responsible for disseminating the code, as well as any other users who downloaded it. .
According to two sources who have been briefed on the internal investigation, “Twitter has launched an investigation into the leak, and officials handling the matter have guessed that whoever was involved left the San Francisco-based company last year.”
One of Twitter’s main concerns is that the code that was stolen has security flaws that could provide cybercriminals or other parties with malicious intent with the tools to access user data or perhaps bring down the website altogether. The organization is concerned that the breach could lead to a data breach or cyberattack, both of which could be very damaging to the company’s image and could lead to significant financial losses.
The disclosure of Twitter’s source code comes at a time when the company is already grappling with mounting financial and structural problems.
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion, has been trying to turn around the social network’s fortunes in recent months by cutting spending, offering new features and inviting users who had been banned in the past.
However, the service has experienced an increasing number of outages and advertisers, who are the company’s main source of revenue, have been reluctant to run ads on the website.
The social networking firm has suffered a major blow as a result of the public disclosure of Twitter’s source code. Twitter needs to address both the leak issue and the potential security flaws that have been exposed as a result of the leak.
The organization is responsible for ensuring the privacy of its users’ data and the security of its platform. Twitter not only has to find solutions to its structural and financial problems, but also needs to win back the trust of its users and advertisers.
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