SAN FRANCISCO –Twitter is asking its 336 million users to immediately consider changing their passwords as social media giant identified a bug that allowed users’ passwords to be saved on an internal log without encryption.
According to the micro-blogging website, all the stores’ passwords have now been removed from the platform and are no longer visible to anyone.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/992132808192634881
Twitter uses hashing to mask users passwords, which stored them in form of a random set of numbers and letters, and not plain text.
However, a bug allowed the passwords to be entered on an internal log before the hashing process. Twitter says that it found the error itself, removed the password, and is working on a plan to prevent the bug from returning.
