Change your twitter password; could have been hacked

Password leaks occur too frequently in the industry. On more than one occasion entire databases have been leaked, as has happened now with Twitter. Since the 336 million users of the social network could have suffered this problem and their passwords would have been leaked. Therefore, it is recommended that you change your password immediately.

Change your Twitter password; could have been hacked

The social network has announced that there has been a failure in the way they manage their passwords, because they have stored them in plain text in an internal registry. So anyone with access could see the username and password.

We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you've used this password.

- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 3, 2018

Twitter security flaw

Without a doubt, this is a major security breach by Twitter. So it is important that users are alert and change their password, to avoid possible problems. In addition, the social network itself has put a message for users that teaches how to encrypt passwords. As a possible solution to such a situation.

The ruling has revealed that security on the social network is poor. Since this is nowhere near the way to save passwords. So they are surely already implementing changes in the way they manage passwords to prevent a similar failure from happening again.

The social network itself has noticed the failure and they have informed users immediately. Although, there is the possibility that some worker or ex-worker of the company has sold this database and is available on the DarkWeb. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone with a Twitter account change their password.

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