Twitter politely requests: Please reset your password
The Parallax
MAY 4, 2018
Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal approached the company’s 330 million users on Thursday with an unusual security message: We made a mistake, he said. We haven’t been breached, but could you please consider resetting your password? “Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process,” Agrawal wrote in a blog post revealing that the service had been storing user passwords before encoding them for internal use.
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