on Tuesday morning, to the Securities and Exchange Commission , Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission . A redacted version of the complaint has been sent to multiple congressional committees.with the FTC where the company said it would create an extensive security plan to protect users’ personal information. Zatko says that user data, including those coming from Twitter’s most high-profile verified handles, are vulnerable to hacks.
Zatko accused Twitter executives of purposefully misleading the company’s board of directors about these vulnerabilities. A presentation shown late last year to the board’s risk committee said that 92% of employees’ computers had security software installed. But Zatko alleges executives, despite his protests, failed to tell them that a third of the company’s computers were still vulnerable.
Twitter has come under fire in recent months for its handling of sensitive user information. Earlier this month, a former Twitter employee wasof spying on Saudi dissidents and passing their information on to the Saudi government. The company was also fined $150 by the US federal government for collecting user email addresses and phone numbers for security purposes and then using them for marketing purposes.