Twitter announces data breach, encourages password change

Social media platform, Twitter, on Thursday revealed that it experienced a technical glitch that revealed private data of its users.

The micro-blogging site shared details of the breach on their handle and also sent messages to their users encouraging them to change their passwords.

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It wrote: “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.”

See the tweet below:

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

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