Former Exec Claims Twitter Lied To Feds About Security

The Washington Post reports:

Twitter executives deceived federal regulators and the company’s own board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its defenses against hackers, as well as its meager efforts to fight spam, according to an explosive whistleblower complaint from its former security chief.

The complaint from former head of security Peiter Zatko, a widely admired hacker known as “Mudge,” depicts Twitter as a chaotic and rudderless company beset by infighting, unable to properly protect its 238 million daily users including government agencies, heads of state and other influential public figures.

Among the most serious accusations in the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is that Twitter violated the terms of an 11-year-old settlement with the Federal Trade Commission by falsely claiming that it had a solid security plan.

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The complaint alleges Zatko had warned colleagues that half of the company’s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software and that executives withheld dire facts from directors about the number of breaches and lack of protections for user data. https://t.co/Tg86F3cOQO

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 23, 2022