Uncategorized · 2018-05-04

You might as well change your Twitter password just to be safe

Twitter insists it’s not a breach but in today’s times, why take the risk.

It said on its blog that it had identified a bug that left stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. The bug was fixed, & investigation showed no indication of breach or misuse by anyone.

But out of “abundant caution”, Twitter has asked users to change their password on all services. You can change your Twitter password anytime by going to the password settings page.

Here’s what it said about the bug:

We normally 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. This allows our systems to validate your account credentials without revealing your password. This is an industry standard.

Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process. We found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again.


 

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