This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed | This did not go unnoticed and Alzabarah, when questioned by his supervisors, reportedly said he had only done it out of curiosity |
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Prosecutors said a third defendant, a Saudi named Ahmed Almutairi who worked as a social media adviser for the Saudi royal family, acted as an intermediary with the Twitter employees | Criticism [ ] According to former employees, Twitter did not have plans to handle situations in which a personnel with access to sensitive data built strong ties with foreign powers |
Some belonged to real people, including a late American meteorologist and an Olympic ski champion whose account had been hacked.
It has even arrested and imprisoned Twitter users | It also alleged that the employees — whose jobs did not require access to Twitter users' private information — were rewarded with a designer watch and tens of thousands of dollars funneled into secret bank accounts |
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Beyond the vast opportunity manifest in African markets, we highlight people who make a difference; leaders turning the tide, youth driving change, and an indefatigable business community | A Twitter security engineer told the FBI that Alzabarah, whose job was to maintain the site, had no "legitimate business purpose" to access the user accounts, according to the complaint |
MBS has yet to suffer so much as a public warning, while people like Bader Al Asaker—who multiple times with the Khashoggi hit squad on the day the journalist was murdered—use the site to propagandize to a huge audience.