Twitter has countered Elon Musk’s new claim on breach of contract, after the social media company paid off whistleblower and hacker, Peiter Zatko, without informing the world’s richest man, IgbereTV reports
The social networking site had paid Zatko $7.75 million after the whistleblower, who was Twitter’s former Chief Security, alleged that the company misled the public on its spam accounts.
IGBERETV had reported three weeks ago that Zatko revealed that Twitter lied about its defenses against hackers. He made the revelation in an 84-page whistleblower complaint disclosing the lapses of the social media company.
Zatko also claimed that Twitter’s server and software security has a flaw that could enable hacking, provide bad actors opportunity to carry out disinformation campaigns, as well as foster foreign espionage.
Twitter had denied some of the allegations, describing them as false, inaccurate and baseless, “We are reviewing the redacted claims that have been published but what we have seen so far is a false narrative that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, and presented without important context.”
However, Zatko was later paid, and Musk said he wasn’t informed before the payment was made, a decision he said breached their acquisition agreement, he wrote in a letter to Twitter on Friday.
In their response to his statement on Monday, Twitter said it’s another attempt by Musk to find a reason to terminate the $44 billion deal, and described his reason as “invalid and wrongful.”
Twitter’s reaction comes at a period the company was to meet with shareholders to vote on the acquisition deal, if to sell or halt Musk’s takeover. The meeting was initially reported to hold in August
