Twitter warns 33 crore users

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, May 04, 2018, 01:03 PM

Twitter warns 33 crore users

New Delhi, May 04: Twitter warned its 33 crore users on Thursday to change their passwords after it discovered that it had mistakenly stored them internally prior to fortifying them through a security technique, leaving the passwords vulnerable to hackers.

"It's a bad thing and Twitter should be held to the fire for it," says David Kennedy, CEO of the penetration testing firm TrustedSec. "But they are taking the right steps by requesting everyone change their password and making the bug public versus hiding it."

Twitter has begun notifying both mobile and desktop users to change their passwords, but several people have reported errors and lags, presumably because everyone is trying to make account changes at once (which is good!).