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Just In : Twitter Advises All Users To Change Their Passwords Immediately

by Oluwatobiloba Emmanuel May 05, 2018

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I believe security and privacy in the 21st century seems to be an illusion and in 85% of most cases it's true.

So I was just decided to log in to the blue-bird's microblogging social network on my laptop and I was welcomed with a huge pop op on my screen -

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

I do hope what Twitter said about the data not being breached or misused is true but just to be cock sure and avoid stories that touch the heart. You're advised to change your Twitter password. I've already changed mine.