Twitter has notified US regulatory authorities of a failure in their systems. This has compromised the keys of all its users. The company recommends everyone to change the password.
Apparently, the bug has been in operation for several months and was discovered a few weeks ago by its engineers.
The error occurred during the hashing process of the keys before they were stored in the database. A programming error caused them to be written to some of the internal operations records.
But everything is already corrected. Twitter states that everything is fixed and that the technical error no longer occurs. It also clarifies that there are no indications that these data have been stolen by third parties or misused by platform workers. But, to be on the safe side, it advises all users to change passwords.
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. https://t.co/RyEDvQOTaZ
- Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 3, 2018
Change Twitter password. Tip about your account security:
Here are the safety tips that they recommend us to do, from the bird's platform, to deal with this case:
There is no reason to believe that password information left Twitter's systems or that anyone misused that information. But still, there are some steps you can take to help keep your account safe:
- Change your password on Twitter and in other services where you have been able to use it.
- Use a strong password that you won't reuse on other services.
- Enable two-factor authentication verification. It is the best measure you can take to increase the security of your account.
- You have used a password manager to ensure that you use strong and unique passwords across all services.
And you? Have you changed your password yet? We do.
Also disable these Twitter settings:
And since we're talking about this social network, here's a video in which we recommend you disable some functions, to save battery life and increase your privacy.
