Twitter advises users to change passwords after detecting unmasking ‘bug’

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Twitter on Thursday advised users to change their passwords after the company detected a “bug,” which the company has since corrected.

“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,” Twitter said in a tweet Thursday. “As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password.”

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