More trouble for Elon | Twitter suffers major source code leak - was an ex-employee behind it?

Twitter has revealed that ex-employees are responsible for leaking the social media platform’s source code on the internet hosting service site GitHub, which could allow hackers to extract user data.

The source code, which is the primary code the app uses to run, was reportedly left on GitHub “for at least several months” after being taken down when Twitter sent a notice to the site.

An internal investigation has begun to find out who is responsible for the leak, and Twitter has requested the US District Court to order GitHub to identify the user who posted the code and those who downloaded it.

The social media platform has been in the headlines over the past year for its ownership takeover by Elon Musk, Tesla CEO. The code was posted on GitHub by a user named FreeSpeechEnthusiast, a nod to the Twitter founder who is a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist.”