A member of China's intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), was on the payroll at Twitter, according to testimony from a whistleblower appearing before Congress today. The whistleblower also testified that the company didn't care about having foreign spies working within its walls, with one executive telling him, 'Well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more?'
A member of China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security , was on the payroll at Twitter, according to testimony from a whistleblower appearing before Congress today.
Peiter Zatko, who until recently served as Twitter’s head of security, also said there were concerns inside the company that the Chinese government could collect data on the platform’s users as it sought business from Chinese advertisers.In his testimony, Zatko revealed that he learned about a Chinese intelligence agent on the company payroll a week before his firing from the company.
Chinese espionage inside American problems remains a major security threat in the U.S., with Chinese agents and hackers particularly focused on stealing American intellectual property. As of 2019, the FBI had nearly a thousand open cases of Chinese intellectual property theft. A recent report revealed that Chinese hackers have stolen trillions worth of intellectual property from multinational corporations.
The news about a Chinese agent inside Twitter comes a little over a month after a former employee of the company wasAllum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of
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