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Raquel Maria Dillon

A former employee accuses Twitter of big security lapses in a whistleblower complaint

Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former security head, poses for a portrait on Aug. 22 in Washington, D.C. Zatko accused the company of ignoring major security vulnerabilities in an explosive whistleblower complaint. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Peiter Zatko, who until January served as Twitter's security head, has filed an explosive whistleblower complaint, alleging the company ignored major security vulnerabilities and misrepresented the number of "bots," or fake accounts, on the platform.

Zatko, who's also a well-known former hacker known as "Mudge," filed the complaint last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. The complaint was first reported by The Washington Post and CNN.

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