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Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, said the company was vulnerable to spies and had been warned by the government that one or more of its employees were working for foreign intelligence services, according to CNN Business.
Zatko sent a disclosure to Congress in July alleging that employees have too much access to users’ private data with minimal oversight and raised the possibility of the company employing spies, CNN reported. He also accused Twitter’s executives of misleading the board about security vulnerabilities he claimed could lead to spying, hacking and disinformation.
The claims of possible foreign spies are bolstered by a recent case in which former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia Aug. 9.
Zatko also claimed Parag Agrawal, the company’s then-chief technology officer and current CEO, proposed that the company comply with Russia’s demands that would further open the door to foreign censorship and surveillance in 2021.
