Is it safe to use Twitter? Security fears rise after Elon Musk drives off staff
Elon Musk’s two-week management of Twitter has made the platform more vulnerable to fraud and privacy violations by driving away key members of its longtime
Elon Musk’s two-week management of Twitter has made the platform more vulnerable to fraud and privacy violations by driving away key members of its longtime security staff, former Twitter employees and cybersecurity experts said Friday.
The fear that Twitter had become a more dangerous place for scams and the theft of personal information added to a growing sense of chaos around the service, which the tech billionaire bought last month for $44 billion.
Twitter’s chief information security officer Lea Kissner and its chief privacy officer Damien Kieran announced their resignations, and they were joined out the door by others who worked on cybersecurity and related teams. Musk a week ago laid off about half of Twitter’s workforce, citing financial constraints.
“They’re just wounded right now,” said Austin Berglas, a former FBI cybersecurity official in New York who’s now a consultant at security firm BlueVoyant.
“They’ve lost a lot of important players on the field, so I think people are going to try to exploit them while they’re down,” he said.
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