Twitter Source Code Leaked Online, Company Demands GitHub Reveal Leaker's Name

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According to a legal filing by Twitter in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, parts of Twitter’s source code were leaked online by an apparent ex-employee, and GitHub, where the code appeared, took the source code down following receipt of a copyright infringement request by Twitter.

It was unclear how long the leaked code had been online, but it appeared to have been public for at least several months. According to the filing, Twitter also asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order GitHub to identify the person who shared the code and any other individuals who downloaded it.

Among the concerns is that the code includes security vulnerabilities that could give hackers or other motivated parties the means to extract user data or take down the site, they said. According to Twitter's legal filing, the person who leaked Twitter’s source code appeared to go by the name “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” on GitH…