Twitter Responds to Reports of Leaked Passwords
Twitter responded to widespread reports of security breaches and leaked passwords with a blog post by trust and information security officer Michael Coates.
Twitter responded to widespread reports of security breaches and leaked passwords with a blog post by trust and information security officer Michael Coates.
Coates wrote that Twitter investigated recent claims of user names and passwords for sale, and it found that the information was not obtained by hacking its servers:
The purported Twitter @names and passwords may have been amassed from combining information from other recent breaches, malware on victim machines that are stealing passwords for all sites, or a combination of both.
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