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Twitter Corrected a Bug That Caused Passwords to Be Stored in Plain Text

The social network said the information never left its internal systems

Twitter suggested that users voluntarily change their passwordsCourtesy designer491/iStock
By David Cohen

May 3, 2018

Twitter admitted Thursday that it fixed a bug that stored passwords in plain text in an internal log, stressing that the information in that log was contained within Twitter’s systems and no passwords were compromised.

David Cohen

David Cohen is editor of Adweek's Social Pro Daily.

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