An error in Twitter password management forces the company to notify users to change them

The privacy of our data is under scrutiny every day. We don't know what companies do with them and what is perhaps more important, we don't know how protected they are from greedy looks who want to get hold of them (with the approval or not by the companies that guard them).

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has been the bomb this year. How secure is our data? It seems that not as much as we expected, or at least that's what we can think if we look at the statement issued by Twitter on their blog and by the email that is reaching us to users.

And it is that Twitter has announced on its blog and they are communicating via _mail_ that it has had a small setback with the security of our accounts. The reason is that have discovered a bug that kept non-hidden passwords in an internal registry:

Apparently there are no people or at least, most users are safe that their access passwords have been exposed , although and just in case they recommend changing all the access codes to our Twitter accounts:

It is better prevent…

It is therefore advisable, to change our password and also those of other accounts that use the same that we have set on Twitter. In fact, they recommend users use a password manager and enable two-step verification whenever possible.

1. Change your password on Twitter and any other service where you may have used it.
2. Use a secure password that you won't use again on other services.
3. Enable login verification, also known as two-factor authentication. This is the best measure you can take to increase the security of your account.
4. Use a password manager to ensure you use strong and unique passwords across all services.

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