Security flaws that affect our computer can be a big problem for us, on a personal level. But those that affect large companies as now has just happened with this leak in the popular Twitter social networkthey tend to spread much more.
We tell you all this because the heads of the platform have just announced that a part of its source code has leaked online. Not only that, but also this leak has been published on the GitHub platform. Of course, when this publication that we are discussing became known, its withdrawal was immediately requested by the social network itself.
Specifically, a user named FreeSpeechEnthusiast shared the source code of Twitter on the Internet. He made it available to everyone on the aforementioned GitHub, so Twitter, after realizing the matter, took the appropriate measures and asked GitHub to remove the post. This is something that was carried out without wasting any time. However, the truth is that all that secret source code of the social network was available to anyone for a while.
Right now those responsible for the social network are investigating the leaker so that you can take action. Furthermore, the company applied to the Northern District Court of California for GitHub to provide the necessary data of the aforementioned user FreeSpeechEnthusiast. Note that GitHub does not typically comment on decisions to remove content. But this case is an exception, as reported by a spokesperson for the platform.
Twitter is looking for the person responsible for the leak of the code
We must bear in mind that in this withdrawal request, Twitter argued that the user had infringed the company’s copyright. From GitHub itself they ensure that everything related to copyright is always taken very seriously. To all this we can add that the commented withdrawal complaint was made on past March 24. Since then, the social network has put the necessary means to try to put a face and locate the person who leaked its source code.
Despite the imminent performance of the website focused on open source development, Twitter believes that the leak may have been available here for several months. Obviously this means that many regular users of the platform could have copied it. At the same time, the firm suspects that the code was leaked by one of its former employees. Specifically one of those who were fired at the end of 2022 when Elon Musk took over the social network as owner and CEO.
As surely many of you already know, since Musk’s purchase of the social network, many have been the workers who have left the company very dissatisfied. Therefore, this leak that we are talking about could be a kind of revenge against the new administrator of the company. All this is something that is being investigated at the moment to unmask the person who posted this secret Twitter source code on GitHub.
