You need to shift your Twitter password .
Due to a “ hemipteron ” in its system , some 330 million Twitter users ’ passwords may have been temporarily exposed , CTO Parag Agrawalannounced on the official Twitter web log Thursday good afternoon .
Twitter says it redress the error in its system , which leave passwords viewable in plaintext rather than right scrambled , but it is still urging all user to change their parole .
We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an intimate log . We fixed the bug and have no meter reading of a falling out or abuse by anyone . As a forethought , believe changing your watchword on all services where you ’ve used this password.https://t.co/RyEDvQOTaZ
— Support ( @Support)May 3 , 2018
Agrawal excuse the snafu in the web log postal service , writing that although Twitter communications protocol is to use hash to block out passwords , a “ glitch ” caused users ’ to be “ write to an internal log before completing the hash process . ” This internal log is not encrypted , and the information , unprotected by hash , was temporarily expose .
I ’m sorry that this happened , but am proud to mould at a companionship that puts the great unwashed who use our armed service first .
— Parag Agrawal ( @paraga)May 3 , 2018
Bottom dividing line : Go exchange your password . Now .
To change your word via Twitter ’s internet site , tick on your visibility painting picture near the top - right recess > preferences and Privacy > Password . enroll your current ( now - exposed ) password , and get in in a young , solid word . If you ’re not sure how to make a unattackable password , show this first .
On iOS and Android , flick your profile video icon in the top - left > configurations and Privacy > Account > Password ( or , on iOS , “ alter parole ” ) , and go through the password - modification process explain above .
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