Twitter’s former security chief filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of failing to protect sensitive user data and lying about its security problems, just weeks before the networking platform’s court battle social with Elon Musk.
Peiter Zatko, who was fired as Twitter’s security chief earlier this year, filed the complaint last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a representative of Whistleblower Aid, an organization that helped file the claims . Its filing says it “found extreme and glaring deficiencies at Twitter in all areas of its mandate,” including privacy, digital and physical security, platform integrity and content moderation.