By John Glenday
Twitter is asking all 330 million of its members to change their passwords after a ‘bug’ saw login details stored as readable text on an internal computer system rather than being properly encrypted.
The lapse is understood to have affected a ‘substantial’ number of users, leaving their logins unprotected for ‘several months’ before the company became aware of the issue several weeks ago.
Conceding that it had dropped the ball the social network held its hands up in a blog post and a flurry of tweets, claiming that the oversight had now been resolved and there was no Read full story ›
Source: The Drum