Saudi Arabia recruited Twitter workers to spy on users, U.S. prosecutors say
U.S. prosecutors say the Saudi government recruited two Twitter Inc. employees to get the personal account information of the Saudi government’s critics.
The complaint unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi officials to recruit employees at the social media firm to look up the private data of thousands of Twitter accounts. The accounts included those of a journalist with more than 1 million followers and other prominent government critics.
It also alleged that the employees — whose jobs did not require access to Twitter users’ private information — were rewarded with a designer watch and tens of thousands of dollars funneled into secret bank accounts.
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