Twitter recently urged its 336 million users to change their passwords after the social networking company discovered a ‘bug’ that might affect account security.
In a report by Time.com, Twitter’s chief technology officer Parag Agrawal said that they discovered “a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log” but has assured users that it has already been fixed.
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. https://t.co/RyEDvQOTaZ
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 3, 2018
Despite already fixing the bug, Agrawal still advised users to change their passwords for the users’ security.
Agrawal also explained in his blog how Twitter use ‘hashing’ in passwords where the actual characters were replaced by random numbers and letters which will be stored in their system.
He, however, later gained criticisms after tweeting about the company, not having to disclose the bug to users and later apologized for what he stated.
We are sharing this information to help people make an informed decision about their account security. We didn’t have to, but believe it’s the right thing to do. https://t.co/yVKOqnlITA
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 3, 2018
I should not have said we didn’t have to share. I have felt strongly that we should. My mistake. https://t.co/Cqbs1KiUWd
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 3, 2018
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