Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal tweeted his apologies for the leak after the announcement was posted. Out of an abundance of caution, we ask that you consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password. We have fixed the bug, and our investigations show no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it. Twitter has added a warning on its mobile apps, asking users to change passwords: Keeping your Twitter Account Secure This suggests there seems to be a considerable number of users impacted. What’s important is that the company has requested all the users to change their passwords. Twitter has not shared how many passwords could have been possibly compromised. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. The company is working to ensure the same kind of issues doesn’t crop up again. Twitter claimed it had discovered the bug on its own and removed the unmasked passwords. However, due to an error in the system, passwords were stored in plain text on the internal logs. Hashing involves masking passwords by replacing them with random character strings. Twitter announced that the bug occurred due to a hashing process issues. Twitter Password Leak – How to Stay Safe and Protect Yourself Twitter Announces That Users’ Password Were Exposed
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