Twitter has urged its 300 1000000 users to alter their password subsequently it discovered that they had unintentionally stored them inward internal logs leaving the passwords vulnerable to hackers.
Twitter’s primary applied scientific discipline officer, Parag Agrawal wrote a weblog shipping service inward which he told all the users to alter their passwords on all other platforms also if the passwords they used at that topographic point were the same every bit on Twitter.
However, the social media society said that they bring non works life whatsoever sign that hackers bring accessed whatsoever sort of data, merely for safety, they urged everyone to alter their passwords.
"Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log earlier completing the hashing process," a Twitter spokesperson said. "We works life this mistake ourselves, removed the passwords, in addition to are implementing plans to foreclose this põrnikas from happening again."
Twitter did non let on how many passwords were exposed or how long the glitch made information vulnerable to snooping.
"Our investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse past times anyone," Twitter said.
