Peiter Zatko, the social media giant's former security chief, sent the whistleblower disclosures to Congress, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice in July.
"The whistleblower’s allegations of widespread security failures at Twitter, willful misrepresentations by top executives to government agencies, and penetration of the company by foreign intelligence raise serious concerns," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told FOX Business in a statement. "If these claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world.
In addition, Zatko claims that about half of Twitter's 7,000 employees have access to user data and that the company has "no visibility or control over thousands of devices used to access core company systems." The complaint also alleges that Twitter does not properly delete user data after they cancel their accounts and has "never been in compliance" with a 2011 Federal Trade Commission settlement related to charges that it failed to protect consumers' data.
"What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context," the spokesperson said. "Mr. Zatko's allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders. Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be.
"The situation escalated in the last quarter of 2021 when the Board’s Risk Committee was presented with information that whitewashed the problematic state of the Company’s Information Security posture," lawyers from Katz Banks Kumin wrote in a statement. "Mr.
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