• Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko claims Twitter has at least one Chinese spy at the company.
• Zatko said he informed an exec of the threat and was told "What does it matter if we have more [foreign agents]?"
• Twitter has said Zatko's complaint is "riddled with inaccuracies."

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Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko told US lawmakers on Tuesday that Twitter has at least one Chinese agent at the company.

Zatko alleged that the FBI warned Twitter that the company employed a Chinese foreign agent.

"I had been told because the corporate security physical security team had been contacted and told that there was at least one agent of the MSS which is one of China's intelligence services on the payroll inside Twitter," Zatko said at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

The revelation at the hearing came after Zatko — better known by his hacker name "Mudge" — had already alleged the company knowingly allowed an agent for the Indian government to work inside Twitter with access to user data.

Zatko's complaint, which was submitted to US authorities in July, indicated that the US government had provided Twitter with specific information that at least one of its employees, perhaps more, may be working for a foreign...

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