Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who previously served as the company’s head of security, testified before the Senate yesterday — here at four key takeaways from his testimony.
against Twitter in July. Zatko was a prolific hacker who was hired as Twitter’s security head before being fired in January by new CEO Parag Agrawal. In his whistleblower complaint, Zatko alleged that Twitter failed to protect user data, refused to address warnings when raised with executives, and lied about its security issues.
Sen. Josh Hawley questioned Zatko on the access that Twitter employees have to user data, asking: “I want to make sure I got this straight. You’ve stated today and in your report that about 4,000 Twitter employees are classified as engineers. Is that right?” Zatko confirmed that around half of Twitter’s 7,000 employees at the time were classified as engineers, to which Hawley responded: “Got it. And that means that these 4,000-ish employees would have had access to live user data all over Twitter. They could access individual users’ personal information, including their live data. Have I got that right?”
Zatko responded: “Yes, sir. They would have access to the production environment. If they spent the time to meander around and look around, they would find that they could access these large flows of data.Zatko said: “I know that Twitter has IP locations and that they do use geolocation services based upon IP addresses.”
Hawley remarked: “Wow, 4,000 employees with access to that data. That’s extraordinary. So those employees would be in a position than if they wanted to, to get this information and docs Twitter users. Is that fair to say?”
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