"Twitter's Source Code Leak on GitHub a Potential Cyber Nightmare"

Based on a DMCA Takedown request filed on March 24, some of Twitter's proprietary source code had been publicly accessible on GitHub for nearly three months. On March 24, GitHub honored a Twitter employee's request to remove "proprietary source code for Twitter's platform and internal tools." The code had been published in a repository named "PublicSpace," by an individual with the username "FreeSpeechEnthusiast." The leaked code was in four folders. Although inaccessible as of March 24, some folder names such as "auth" and "aws-dal-reg-svc" seem to give insight into what they contained. According to Ars Technica, FreeSpeechEnthusiast joined GitHub on January 3 and committed the leaked code on the same day, meaning that the code was accessible to the public in its entirety for nearly three months. For Twitter and other companies, source code leaks can be a more significant problem for cybersecurity than copyright infringement. This article continues to discuss the leak of Twitter's source code, how enterprise code leaks happen, and why such leaks are a major problem for cybersecurity. 

Dark Reading reports "Twitter's Source Code Leak on GitHub a Potential Cyber Nightmare"