Platform was compromised by many intelligence services, Zatko said.
, Zatko said, but the full extent to which the company was compromised could not be known.
“We simply lacked the ability to hunt for foreign intelligence agents and expel them on our own,” he said. Zatko also reiterated claims made in his SEC disclosure, alleging that a lack of access logging in the company’s internal systems meant it was effectively impossible to see what data had been viewed by any specific employee. Within the company, there were “thousands” of unauthorized data access attempts every week, Zatko told the hearing, but it was impossible to precisely quantify.
After a few weeks of relative quiet, new details given to the hearing will undoubtedly put Zatko back in the spotlight. In the time since the disclosures were made, lawyers for Elon Musk to present evidence in the ongoing lawsuit over whether Musk will be compelled to buy Twitter or be allowed to back out of the deal.
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