Twitter Inc had misled federal regulators regarding its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company's former security Chief Peiter Zatko has mentioned in a whistle blower complaint.

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Known hacker Zatko alleged Twitter falsely claimed that it had solid security plan
Peiter Zatko had filed a complaint, got published by Washington Post and CNN
The complaint had raised serious national security issues and privacy problems

In an 84-page complaint, Zatko, a known hacker mostly referred to as 'Mudge,' alleged Twitter incorrectly claimed that it had a solid security set up, as per the documents relayed by congressional investigators.

The accusations had arrived as the social media company battles Elon Musk in court when the world's richest person tried to drag out of $44-billion deal to buy for the company, by citing Twitter's failure to give details concerning the prevalence of bot and spam accounts.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Musk had offered to buy for Twitter for $54.20 per share by mentioning that he had believed it might be a world platform for free speech. Twitter's shares had fell 5 percent to $40.79 in afternoon trading.

Last month the complaint was filed by Zatko with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission along with the Department of Justice, and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The complaint which was first published by the Washington Post and CNN, was even sent to congressional committees.

Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal has mentioned to its employees in a memo was that 'we were reviewing the redacted claims which were published but what we have looked into so far was a false narrative that was riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies.'

The Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Chuck Grassley, has mentioned that the complaint had raised serious national security issues and privacy problems and an investigation was required.

He mentioned that 'take a tech platform that would collect large amounts of user information, mix it with what seems to be an unbelievably weak security infrastructure and infuse it with foreign state actors with an agenda, and you have got a formula for disaster.'

The FTC had declined to comment. A spokesperson for the Senate Intelligence Committee has mentioned that it had received the complaint and was within the method of setting up a meeting in order to discuss about the allegation.

The whistleblower document had alleged Twitter to prioritize the user growth over reducing spam, with executives eligible to win individual bonuses of the maximum amount as $10 million tied to get increased in daily users, and nothing explicitly for reducing the spam.

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