Twitter says source code was leaked on GitHub, now it’s trying to find the culprit

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Elon Musk shown looking downward in front of upside-down Twitter logos.
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge

Parts of Twitter’s source code were recently leaked online via GitHub, the New York Times reports, but were taken down after the social media platform filed a DMCA request. The request, which GitHub has published online, notes that the leaked information included “proprietary source code for Twitter’s platform and internal tools.”

The NYT notes that the source code maybe have been public for several months before being removed — the GitHub profile associated with the DMCA takedown lists a single (non-public) code contribution from early January. The name of the account is listed as “FreeSpeechEnthusiast,” in an apparent reference to Twitter CEO Elon Musk calling himself a “free speech absolutist” in the past.

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source https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/23657928/twitter-source-code-leak-github

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