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.
Chief technology officer Parag Agrawal revealed the bug fix in a blog post, saying that while the social network’s investigation “shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone,” Twitter still suggested that users consider changing their passwords on its network and anywhere else where the same passwords were used.
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