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Twitter Hires First General Counsel, Hacker Puts Him to Work

By Carolyn Elefant

Last Friday, Twitter named Alexander Macgillivray as its first General Counsel -- apparently not a moment too soon. Just a few days later, reports the BBC, Twitter was in touch with its legal counsel trying to assess the fallout after hundreds of its internal documents accessed by a hacker were published on the popular TechCrunch blog. The Twitter hacking incident first came to light on July 14, with this TechCrunch post that recounted its dilemma: The guy (?Hacker Croll?) who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly and sent them to us earlier today. The zip file contained 310 documents, ranging from executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial projections to the meal preferences, calendars and phone logs of various Twitter employees... We?re not going to post any of those documents [relating to employee information or company floor plans]. But we are going to release some of the documents showing financial projections, product plans and notes from executive strategy meetings. We?re also going to post the original pitch document for the Twitter TV show that hit the news in May, mostly because it?s awesome. There is...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).