Twitter Takes Legal Action Over Leaked Source Code on Github

Twitter, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, is taking legal action after parts of its source code were leaked online.

The social media platform has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order Github to produce “all identifying information” associated with the user named ‘FreeSpeechEnthusiast’, who published various excerpts of Twitter’s source code on the Microsoft-owned platform for sharing code for software development.

Twitter is concerned that exposing its internal workings may make the service more vulnerable to hacking attempts.

The company has also launched an internal investigation into the leak and is asking for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, emails, social media profiles, and IP addresses of the parties involved.

Elon Musk had previously tweeted about making part of the source code public, but Twitter did not respond to requests for comment on the leak.