Twitter Asks its 336 Million Users To Change Passwords After The Discovery Of A Bug

Twitter in a blog post, said that it recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked.

It is time to change your Twitter password now as the micro-blogging platform has asked its 336 million users to do so across its services after it discovered a bug that stored passwords in plain text in an internal system. In a blog post on Thursday, Twitter said it recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. "We have fixed the bug, and our investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone.

“We are very sorry this happened,” said Twitter’s chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal, in a blogspot. “We recognise and appreciate the trust you place in us, and are committed to earning that trust every day.”

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 Companies with good security practices typically store user passwords in a form that cannot be read. In Twitter’s case, passwords are masked through a process called hashing, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in the company’s system.

“This allows our systems to validate your account credentials without revealing your password,” said Agrawal. “This is an industry standard.”

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