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Passwords Inadvertently Saved to Log in Plaintext Format; Twitter Blames BugTwitter has apologized after it discovered that it had been inadvertently storing users' passwords in plaintext in an...

Twitter is urging all of its 330 million users to change their passwords after a software glitch unintentionally exposed its users' passwords by storing them in readable text on its internal...

Twitter has been storing your password safely in its database - but not in its logs, where it's been writing plaintext passwords by mistake.

Twitter just asked all 300+ million users to reset their passwords, citing the exposure of user passwords via a bug that stored passwords in plain text -- without protecting them with any sort of...

A glitch caused Twitter passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log.

Twitter on Thursday warned its users that an internal software bug unintentionally exposed "unmasked" passwords by storing them in an internal log. read more

Microblogging site downplays epic security blunder as log file left unencrypted Twitter is ringing in World Password Day by notifying its users, all 330 million of them, that their login...

The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is.

Dr Aleksandr Kogan, the academic behind the personality quiz app that harvested Facebook information of 80+ million people, has also had access to a random sample of public tweets posted during a...

Twitter is the latest company to face backlash for how it handles data privacy after disclosing that it sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher.