Change Your Twitter Password Now, States Twitter

Twitter discovered a bug that saved user passwords on an internal log without proper encryption and while the company said there is no evidence passwords have been leaked or misused, it is urging users to update their passwords.

“As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password,” the company tweeted.

The company encrypts user passwords to keep them safe. But the detected bug stored the passwords in their original form to an “internal log.” Twitter said it has fixed the issue.

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