Lea Kissner, Twitter’s former chief information security officer; Damien Kieran, the chief privacy officer; and Marianne Fogarty, chief compliance officer, resigned from the company, according to an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Under another tweet from Kissner saying they were “fiercely proud of the privacy, security and IT teams at Twitter, Kieran wrote, “There is nothing else to say.” The departures, which were previously reported by the Verge, came about a week after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, announced sweeping layoffs at the company and hours after Twitter began providing a verification badge to users who paid the company a monthly $8 fee.
Twitter is currently bound by a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission that regulates how the company handles user data. In July, Zatko filed an 84-page whistle-blower complaint with multiple US government agencies, alleging that the company had violated the terms of its agreement with the FTC. Zatko also said the security lapses at Twitter were so grave that they threatened national security.