Twitter Inc. urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by a process known as "hashing." Still, it urged all users to consider changing their passwords. A bug caused the passwords to be written on an internal computer log before the hashing process was completed, the blog said. "We are very sorry this happened," the Twitter blog said. The company advised users to take precautions to ensure that their accounts are safe, including changing passwords and enabling Twitter's two-factor authentication service to help prevent accounts from being hijacked.

Source: CBC News May 03, 2018 20:33 UTC