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'Anonymous' Twitter users may amend claims over data leak, US judge says

By Amy Miller ( February 16, 2024, 00:17 GMT | Insight) -- X Corp., formerly Twitter, will likely win its bid to dismiss claims that it failed to safeguard the security of software that connects is services to third-party apps, resulting in the unmasking of millions of anonymous users,  US Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore in Oakland, California, said. But the plaintiffs will be given a chance to amend their allegations, she said. “I could change my mind in terms of the futility of some potential amendments,” Westmore said. “But it's a good idea for the court to give the plaintiffs an opportunity to amend if I think they really have any chance of adequately pleading their claims.”X Corp., formerly Twitter, will likely win its bid to dismiss claims that it failed to safeguard the security of software that connects its services to third-party apps, resulting in the unmasking of millions of anonymous users, a US magistrate judge said today....

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