Parts of Twitter source code leaked online on GitHub

Some parts of Twitter Inc’s source code have been leaked and the social media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk is seeking information on the person responsible, a legal filing showed. Also Read: Not an iPhone or Android, Elon Musk’s Starlink Phone idea hints at a different kind of smartphone

According to the filing, “various excerpts” of Twitter’s source code, which is used to run the company online, were posted on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned platform for sharing code for software development, by a user named ‘FreeSpeechEnthusiast’. Also Read: A single Musk megacompany? SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI could be heading for a merger

Github said it took down the code on Friday at Twitter’s request. Also Read: Neuralink’s vision implant is almost ready: What the first human trial could look like

Twitter has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order GitHub to produce “All identifying information” associated with the ‘FreeSpeechEnthusiast’ username, the March 24 filing showed.

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.

Twitter also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The news was first reported by the New York Times.

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— Reuters