WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
today announced that at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13, the Senate
Judiciary Committee will hold a full Committee hearing to examine allegations
of widespread security failures at Twitter. The hearing will feature
testimony by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who will appear pursuant to a subpoena and
whose recent
disclosure
alleges serious privacy and security failures by the company.
“Mr. Zatko’s allegations of widespread security failures and
foreign state actor interference at Twitter raise serious concerns. If
these claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy and security
risks for Twitter users around the world,” Durbin and Grassley said. “The Senate
Judiciary Committee will investigate this issue further with a full Committee
hearing this work period, and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom
of these alarming allegations.”
-30-