Twitter echoed a statement it made after Peiter Zatko’s revelation was first made public on Tuesday afternoon in response to his testimony in front of the US Congress.

“Today’s hearing only confirms that Mr. Zatko’s allegations are riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies,” a Twitter spokesperson said, reported CNN.

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The representative stated that access to internal company data is controlled by methods including background checks, access controls, and monitoring systems. The company’s employment process is also unaffected by outside influences.

The business declined to comment on a number of specific assertions made by Zatko, including those that the FBI had told Twitter it might have at least one Chinese agent on staff and that the business is allegedly incapable of determining whether foreign agents are on its payroll.

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As its shareholders decide to support a $44 billion takeover offer that Elon Musk is trying to exit, Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko told the US Congress on Tuesday that the platform ignored his security concerns.

As Twitter’s former security head, Zatko testified during the hearing, “I’m here today because Twitter leadership is misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors.”

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He said that he tried unsuccessfully to warn management of serious hacking or data theft risks while serving as the platform’s head of security from late 2020 until his removal in January of this year.

In his opening statements to the Judiciary Committee, Zatko stated, “They don’t know what data they have, where it lives, or where it came from. And so, unsurprisingly, they can’t protect it.”

“Employees then have to have too much access (…) it doesn’t matter who has the keys if you don’t have any locks on the doors,” he added.

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In his testimony, Zatko claimed to have “repeatedly sounded the alarm” and presented the executive team with tangible evidence of issues.

“To put it bluntly, Twitter leadership ignored its engineers because key parts of leadership lacked competency to understand the scope of the problem,” Zatko said.