Twitter trashes ex-worker’s claim that India forced it to hire ‘govt agent’

Former Twitter security head Peiter “Mudge” Zatko has alleged that the Indian government forced the micro-blogging platform to hire a “government agent” and allow him access to users’ sensitive data, a claim that has been trashed by Twitter.

Zatko’s whistleblower disclosure in a 84-page page, submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was obtained by CNN and The Washington Post on Tuesday.

In a section titled ‘Penetration by Foreign Intelligence & Threats to Democracy’, Zatko claimed that “the Indian government forced Twitter to hire specific individual(s) who were government agents, who (because of Twitter’s basic architectural flaws) would have access to vast amounts of Twitter sensitive data”.