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.
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