Twitter’s copyrighted source code was available publicly until last week, according to a California court filing Friday.
The code, which serves as the foundation for the web service’s different features and internal tools, was published on GitHub, a popular code repository currently owned by Microsoft Corp.
GitHub cooperated with Twitter’s request to delete the material in response to a copyright infringement accusation and made the request public.
The account behind the posting, FreeSpeechEnthusiast, joined GitHub at the beginning of the year and appears to have solely posted the Twitter cache.
Twitter is now looking for the individual who created the account, as well as the identities and other details of any users who posted, downloaded, or uploaded the material.
According to the lawsuit, the Elon Musk-owned social network is requesting the names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, social media accounts, and IP addresses of those parties from GitHub.
According to a New York Times story citing unidentified persons familiar with the subject, the business has also begun an internal probe into the leak.
When asked for comment by Bloomberg, GitHub stated that it does not normally comment on content removal decisions and pointed to its posting of Twitter’s takedown request.
Twitter’s press email address continues to auto-respond with a faeces emoji.
By exposing Twitter’s internal workings, the site may become more exposed to hacker efforts.
The leaker’s account appears to be intended to mock Musk, who made a great fuss about restoring free speech to the platform when he took over the firm late last year.
