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Fortune
Eleanor Pringle

Elon Musk is hunting down a leaker who posted classified codes online

Elon Musk in a suit looking over his shoulder (Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Since his controversial takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has reportedly been paranoid about being sabotaged by disgruntled staff—and his suspicions might have just been proven correct.

An internal manhunt has been launched to find an individual who posted online parts of Twitter's source code, which provides the basis for the entire platform to function. According to the New York Times, the social media platform posted a filing to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday, and also sent a copyright infringement notice to online collaboration platform GitHub, where the code was leaked.

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