Twitter has asked about 33 million users to immediately change the password, citing security reasons. The company has also given its information from its official handle. Twitter has said that a bug in its software recently had come, due to which the passwords of the users became unsafe. However, the company claims that this problem has been resolved. There is no mention of any kind of tampering or misuse of data from users.
Users Change Password
- Twitter Chief Technology Officer Parag Agarwal told in a blog post Friday that now everything is fine. However, they have advised users to change their password.
How To Protect Users Password
- Twitter uses a technique called Hashing for it. Through this, the real password is changed to a code. However, due to a bug, the password of the Twitter user was being saved in its original form instead of the code. This could make hackers easier to find the password and crores of people could have data in danger. However, the company detected the problem and corrected it after taking the time.
Twitter giving message in pop-up window to change password
- Company is now giving change option to change password in the pop-up window. There is also a link to go to the settings page with the bug. Users can change their password directly by clicking on this page.
Users Need to Know Everything: Twitter CEO
- Twitter CEO Jacques Dorsey said that it is important for us to talk openly about this inner fault.
At the same time, the company's Chief Technical Officer Parag Agrawal said, "We are sharing this information with the users so that people can make a decision with information on the security of their accounts. We think this is the right thing. "
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