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CTOnews.com, Sept. 10-Elon Musk filed a revised counterclaim against Twitter on Friday, including recent whistleblower allegations that there was a security breach in the social media platform, according to court records.

In addition, on the 9th local time, the lawyer for Tesla CEO Musk said that Musk's agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion had been terminated because Twitter recently reached an agreement with a whistleblower and paid him $7.75 million.

This is Musk's third letter to Twitter in an attempt to end his $44 billion acquisition. The letter, dated September 9, was sent to Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's chief legal officer, and was included in Twitter's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

Last month, Zatko made headlines by accusing Twitter of misleading investors about the number of robots on its service, failure to delete user data and poor security measures. Musk fought back against the allegations, referring to them in his second dismissal letter and summoning Zatko to testify in the lawsuit. Zatko is scheduled to be removed from office on Friday.

CTOnews.com has reported that Musk sent his first termination letter in July, saying that Twitter had misled him about the number of robots on his platform and that the company would not give him the information he needed to make his own decision. Although he was given access to the "firehose" API that contains each tweet.

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that before Zatko left the company, Twitter agreed to pay him about $7 million, compensation he lost after months of negotiations over compensation.

Mr Musk's lawyers say this is another reason why his deal to buy the social media company, which prohibits Twitter from offering any unconventional severance or severance payments, should not have been approved.

The Wall Street Journal said the settlement was not particularly strange, given that Zatko was an executive who had left the company, but Musk did not seem to agree. (the letter also mentioned that Musk did not know the news until Twitter submitted the separation agreement to the court.)

The trial of the case is scheduled to begin on October 17. Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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