Ex-Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabian government.

The US Justice Department has charged two
former Twitter employees with spying for the Saudi Arabia

One former Twitter employee arrested on Tuesday in Seattle - form Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos warns that there will be more.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two former Twitter employees with spying on user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government.

The indictment filed earlier this week in the US district court in San Francisco details a coordinated effort by the Saudi government officials to recruit Twitter employees as their unofficial agents to hunt for the sensitive data of thousands of Twitter users.

According to The Washington Post, federal agents on Tuesday arrested a former Twitter employee, named Ahmad Abouammo, on charges of illegally accessing the private data of Twitter users and falsifying documents to hinder an FBI investigation.



By Dev Kundaliya.
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