Twitter agreed to pay whistleblower $7 million in June settlement – WSJ

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Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The whistleblower, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who was fired by Twitter in January, last month accused the social media company of falsely claiming it had a solid security plan and making misleading statements about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts.