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Twitter warns users to change passwords due to glitch
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The social media company said in a blog post Thursday that they "recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log," in a process that recorded the data before they were encrypted, but that the glitch has already been fixed. (Shutterstock/GongTo)
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witter has warned its more than 330 million users worldwide to change their account passwords due to a bug recently found in its internal network.
The social media company said in a blog post Thursday that they "recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log," in a process that recorded the data before they were encrypted, but that the glitch has already been fixed.
"We mask passwords through a process called hashing...which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter's system," the company said. "This allows our systems to validate your account credentials without revealing your password."
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"Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process."
Twitter said that "our investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone."
Still, the social media platform said, "Out of an abundance of caution, we ask that you consider changing your password on all services where you've used this password."
