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Two Former Twitter Employees Caught Spying On Users For Saudi Arabia

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. The U.S. Department of Justice has also charged another Saudi national, head of a Saudi social media company with ties to the royal family, for his involvement in the case. Twitter acknowledged that the company has cooperated in this investigation and that it limits access to sensitive account information “to a limited group of trained and vetted employees,” Twitter said in a statement. The Hacker News published today also caused due to an insider threat, where a former Trend Micro employee accessed data on 68,000 consumer customers.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/11/twitter-spying-saudi-arabia.html

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