Security News > 2018 > May > Twitter reveals security blunder, asks users to change their passwords

330 million Twitter users around the world have been urged to change their account password after a glitch resulted in some of them being stored in plaintext format inside the company network. How many and for how long, they didn’t say. Twitter password bug “We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in … More → The post Twitter reveals security blunder, asks users to change their passwords appeared first on Help Net Security.

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