Internal log of stored Twitter passwords of users in plain text
Twitter tells its users that they must modify the password to access the social network. As published by Parag Agrawal, CTO of Twitter, his team has identified an internal log that stored the passwords of users in plain text. The error has already been solved and according to the investigations made no member of the company has misused that information.
References:
- 03/05/2018 blog.twitter.com Keeping your account secure
- 03/05/2018 lavanguardia.com Twitter recomienda a sus usuarios que cambien la contraseña por un fallo de seguridad
- 03/05/2018 wired.com Change your Twitter password now
- 04/05/2018 elmundo.es Twitter recomienda cambiar la contraseña a sus 300 millones de usuarios por un fallo en la seguridad
- 04/05/2018 dailytelegraph.com.au Twitter urges users to change passwords following software bug