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Twitter Admits Recording Plaintext Passwords in Internal Logs, Just Like GitHub

Twitter users are advised to change their passwords ASAP.

 

3rd May, 2018, By Catalin Cimpanu

 

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Following an internal audit, Twitter admitted today that due to a bug in its password storage mechanism it accidentally logged some users’ passwords in internal logs.

 

Today’s disclosure comes after GitHub made a similar announcement earlier this week, describing a similar incident.

 

Just like in the GitHub incident, the passwords were recorded in Twitter’s internal server logs in their plaintext format.

 

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