‘There were thousands of failed attempts to access internal systems that were happening per week and nobody was noticing,’ Pieter ‘Mudge’ Zatko tells the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Twitter is wide open to foreign interference from the inside due to the unfettered access employees have to critical systems, a former executive testified on Capitol Hill today.
Former Twitter security chief Pieter Zatko, also known as Mudge, detailed his concerns before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, reiterating that he believes «Twitter’s unsafe handling of the data of its users and its inability or unwillingness to truthfully represent issues to its board of directors and regulators have created real risk to tens of millions of Americans, the American democratic process, and America’s national security.
«Further, I believe that Twitter’s willingness to purposely mislead regulatory agencies violates Twitter’s legal obligations and cannot be ethically condoned,» he added.
Those risks include Twitter’s inability to detect bad actors within its ranks.
