From users impersonating emergency service providers to spread panic to extortionists stealing and leaking private messages stored on Twitter, “It’s staggering to imagine the amount of risk that this platform has opened itself up to,” said Tobac.
Twitter is fast becoming the “Wild West,” she added.
Shields down
Twitter’s top security officials — including its chief information security officer, chief privacy officer, chief compliance officer and head of trust and safety — all resigned Thursday, citing the risk of implementing some of Musk’s new revenue grabs (like the new check-mark policy) amid an ongoing Federal Trade Commission probe.
All that turnover raises serious questions about the company’s ability to fend off hackers — a difficult task for any high-profile social media platform, and one that Twitter was already falling short on, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by former head of security Peiter Zatko earlier this year.
“There is a serious risk of a breach with drastically reduced staff,” Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and former Yahoo CISO, tweeted Thursday. The situation was especially…
