• Some pieces of the source code for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk’s social media site, Twitter,
• Elon Musk has also stated separately that his company is not worth $44 billion.
• Twitter also requested that GitHub provide the identity of the account holder.

Some pieces of the source code for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk‘s social media site, Twitter, were made public online, and he is looking for information on the person responsible, according to sources on Monday.

The code was made public on GitHub, a Microsoft-owned portal where software engineers typically publish their code.

The code has been deleted at Twitter’s request.

Elon Musk has also stated separately that his company was not worth the $44 billion when he purchased it. He stated that the value of his company is $20 billion.

A spokesperson for Github told the media, “GitHub does not generally comment on decisions to remove content. However, in the interest of transparency, we share every DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] take-down request publicly.”

The DMCA is a statute passed in the United States in 1998 that protects copyright material online.

Twitter also requested that GitHub provide the identity of the account holder, FreeSpeechEnthusiast, who was responsible for the breach.

According to legal filings on March 24, a California-based social media site requested that the District Court for the Northern District of California require Github to produce evidence. “All identifying information” associated with the person behind the leak

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Twitter stated that it violated the company’s copyrights.

It has created a fresh problem for entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has sacked half of its workforce and seen advertisers flee.

Musk, the CEO of Twitter and Tesla, was cited as saying: “I see a clear, but difficult, path to a >$250 billion valuation.” This implies a tenfold increase in Twitter‘s valuation.