Twitter’s former security chief Pieter “Mudge” Zatko submitted a complaint to Congress last month. It highlighted many key flaws and “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in Twitter’s security, exposing a culture where the executive team preferred to hide problems from others instead of solving them.
Zatko was hired in November 2020 to improve Twitter’s security after a wave of high profile breaches. Such as, in August 2019 when CEO (at the time) Jack Dorsey’s twitter was hacked and posted messages supporting white supremacism. This was followed in July 2020 when a teenager compromised 45 high profile accounts (such as Elon Musk’s, Bill Gates’, and Barrack Obama’s) to post bitcoin scams that led to over $110,000 being stolen.
In an attempt to clean up their image, Twitter hired notable hacker and security expert Zatko to lead their security team. However, in January 2022, Twitter fired Zatko. Twitter later issued a statement saying it was assessing the impact of its “top priority work.”
After eight months of silence, the complaint sent to Congress was published. With Twitter already heavily in the limelight over Elon Musk’s attempted purchase, the complaint contained very strong allegations over the company’s security and how the executive team wanted to address it. Major points of complaint are that there have been several severe security lapses on the platform, and the executive team frequently misled government officials and its own board of directors about the security...
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