Parts of Twitter’s source code – the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs – had been leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing Sunday, which was first reported by The New York Times.
According to the legal document, filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked to remove the code from GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development where it was posted. The platform complied and said the content has been disabled, according to the filing. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringers or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter’s authorization.
San Francisco-based Twitter noted in the filing that the posting infringes copyrights held by Twitter.
The leak creates more challenges for billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion and took the company private. Since then, it has been mired in chaos with massive layoffs and an exodus of advertisers.
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission is probing Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter and its internal communications as part of an ongoing oversight into the social media company’s privacy and cybersecurity practices, according to documents described in a congressional report. trying to get.