X Claims Engineer Stole 6M Lines Of Code To Launch New Co.

By Ivan Moreno ( December 8, 2025, 9:17 PM EST) -- X Corp. is accusing a fired software engineer of stealing trade secrets to start her own company, alleging in a federal lawsuit that she exploited upheaval following Elon Musk's April 2022 purchase of the Twitter social media platform to download 6 million lines of proprietary source code. ...

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