Twitter's new boss Elon Musk laid off half of the micro-blogging platform's workforce, soon after taking over and thousands of affected employees are yet to receive any formal severance offer or separation agreement, the media has reported. A former Twitter employee was quoted as saying by CNN that they are yet to receive any documents related to a severance agreement or offer.
One former Twitter employee was quoted as saying by CNN that they had expected to receive some information from Twitter by Wednesday, the last official employment date for many workers affected by the first wave of layoffs under Musk based on state and federal notice period regulations.
According to a spokesperson for Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who is representing several ex-Twitter employees, her clients who were affected by the Twitter layoffs in early November also had yet to receive any severance information. “There was some anticipation that they would be sent yesterday, but we haven’t seen that,” Kevin Ready, the spokesperson, was quoted as saying by CNN.
Meanwhile, Twitter has been hit by a breach yet again. In the latest instance, a hacker calling himself StayMad has reportedly leaked the personal data of over 200 million users, including high-profile accounts of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Donald Trump Jr., SpaceX, CBS Media, NBA, WHO, and more.
However, further investigation suggests that the latest data hack could be the same as the one seen in December 2022, where a hacker calling himself Ryushi leaked the data of 400 million accounts on the dark Web. The latest instance of 200 million accounts are the remnants of the previous hack, after the elimination of duplicate data.
Earlier last week, Twitter was sued for failing to pay $136,250 in rent for its office space in San Francisco amid Musk’s struggle to cut losses. The landlord, Columbia Reit -- 650 California LLC claimed that it notified Twitter on December 16 that it would be in default on its lease for the 30th floor of the Hartford Building in five days unless the rent was paid, said a report by news agency Bloomberg.