Elon Musk's platform Twitter has asked a US court to provide information on who was behind the account which leaked parts of the company's source code – the underlying software on which the service operates.
The company stated in a filing that the code had been posted by a user named FreeSpeechEnthusiast on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned hosting service where software developers share code.
The code has now been deleted by GitHub. However, Twitter has asked the District Court of the Northern District of California to order the Microsoft-owned business to “identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter’s authorisation”.
Elon Musk's company claimed the account had infringed copyrights owned by the company. In the court filing, Twitter’s assistant general counsel, Julian Moore, said the request to identify the leaker was being made under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright...