SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter on Thursday urged its more than 300 million users to change their passwords, saying they had been unintentionally "unmasked" inside the company by a software bug. Twitter did not specify how many passwords were exposed or how long the glitch made data vulnerable to snoopingThe social media site said it found no sign that hackers accessed the exposed data, but advised users to change their passwords to be safe. Twitter practice is to store passwords encrypted, or "hashed," so they are masked to even people inside the company, Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal explained in a blog post. The San Francisco-based internet company did not specify how many passwords were exposed or how long the glitch made data vulnerable to snooping. The social network earned $61 million in the first three months of the year, helped by strong growth in advertising revenue and modest gains in users.

Source: Bangkok Post May 03, 2018 21:11 UTC