Parts Of Twitter Source Code Leaked Online: Report

A legal document revealed that some of Twitter Inc.’s source code has been leaked, and the social media site, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, is looking for information on the perpetrator.
The filing claims that a user going by the name of “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” shared “multiple snippets” of the source code used to power Twitter’s online operations on Github, a platform controlled by Microsoft.
According to Github, the code was removed on Friday at Twitter’s request.

According to the March 24 complaint, Twitter has requested the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to require Github to turn over “Any identifiable information” connected to the user name “FreeSpeechEnthusiast.”

Github did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on whether it has supplied such information. It also did not comment on how long Twitter’s source code had been publicly available.A request for comment from Twitter also received no quick response. The New York Times was the first to break the news.

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