A federal court has ordered GitHub to identify a user who leaked portions of Twitter's proprietary source code earlier this month.
The resulting information will show if the leaker was among the roughly 5,500 Twitter employees who were laid off or left after Elon Musk acquired the platform in late October.
- Twitter executives surmise that the leaker was a former employee who left the company last year, sources told The New York Times.
- The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has now issued a subpoena compelling GitHub to reveal the user's name, email addresses, social media profile data, and more.
- The leaker, who goes by the account name of FreeSpeechEnthusiast, signed up on the software collaboration platform in January and only posted the computer code last week.
- Twitter asked the court to issue a subpoena to identify the person. It also sent a copyright infringement notice to GitHub to take down the code, which it did.
- Github was given until Monday to provide the leaker's data, along with the identities of users who downloaded or modified the code.
