Twitter urges all users to change their password after found bug

Ravi Prajapati
Ravi Prajapati

Twitter on Thursday urged to it’s all users, more than 300 million users to change their passwords, saying they had been unintentionally “unmasked” inside the company by a software bug.

Twitter Tweeted that “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,”

 

Twitter suggest is to store passwords encrypted, or “hashed,” so they are masked to even people inside the company, Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal explained in a blog post.

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

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