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Twitter advises Users to Change Password

106 views · Published 4 May 2018 · 1:18 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Rajamanickam Antonimuthu · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Twitter is advising all 330 million users to change passwords after  a bug exposed them in plain text. 

Twitter revealed that a bug caused the platform to store user passwords in unmasked form.

 Usually when the user sets a password for his Twitter account,  Twitter uses technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it. 

Twitter used to mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter’s system.

Twitter recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.  Twitter says that it fixed the bug, and their investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone,  and they are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again.

Anyway, out of an abundance of caution, Twitter asks the users to consider changing their  password on all services where they’ve used this password.  Twitter users  can change their Twitter password anytime by going to the password settings page.

News Source: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/keeping-your-account-secure.html

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