Some components of Twitter’s supply code have been leaked and the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk is looking for data on the particular person accountable, a authorized submitting confirmed.
According to the submitting, “various excerpts” of Twitter’s supply code, which is used to run the corporate on-line, have been posted on Github, a Microsoft-owned platform for sharing code for software program growth, by a consumer named ‘FreeSpeechEnthusiast’.
Github stated it took down the code on Friday at Twitter’s request.
Twitter has requested the USÂ District Court for the Northern District of California to order Github to provide “All identifying information” related to the ‘FreeSpeechEnthusiast’ consumer title, the March 24 submitting confirmed.
Github didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for touch upon whether or not it has equipped such data. It additionally didn’t touch upon how lengthy Twitter’s supply code had been publicly out there.
Twitter additionally didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The information was first reported by the New York Times.
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