Portions of Twitter’s source code – the fundamental computing code on which the social network is based – have been leaked online, the social network said in a court filing on Sunday, first reported by The New York Times.

According to a legal document that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Twitter asked GitHub, an online software development hosting service, to remove the code it was hosted on.

According to the statement, the platform complied and stated that the content was disabled. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who uploaded its source code to GitHub-managed systems without the tech company’s permission.

Twitter, based in San Francisco, notes in a statement that the posts infringe copyrights it owns. He asked GitHub, an online software development host, to upload the code where it was hosted.

The leak is another problem for Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion and took the company private. Since then, it has been mired in chaos, mass layoffs and loss of advertising revenue.

Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Musk’s Twitter mass layoffs and seeking to obtain his internal communications as part of ongoing oversight of the social network’s privacy and cybersecurity practices, according to documents outlined in a congressional report.

Source: Associated Press.