Peiter Zatko, the hacker decorated by the American administration turned whistleblower

When Peiter Zatko alias “Mudgewas poached by Twitter in July 2020, the social network is struggling to recover from the most serious incident in its history. A hacker managed to infiltrate the company’s services to take control of dozens of accounts with hundreds of millions of subscribers: Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, etc.. His goal: to scam users by asking them to send bitcoins. The case dealt a painful blow to the image of the company, in just a few hours, 1.3 billion dollars in valuation flew away.