According to court documents, Twitter filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in an attempt to have the offending code removed from the Github collaborative programming network, where it had been placed. Although the code was withdrawn the same day, no information was provided about how long it had been online, nor about the extent or depth of the breach. Twitter also asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to order Github to reveal both the identity of the user who posted the code and those who accessed and downloaded it as part of the takedown request, which was reminiscent of Raytheon’s famous – and ultimately unsuccessful – attempt at court-sanctioned doxxing.
