Twitter tells 330 million users to change their passwords

[muriel_volestrangler]

Twitter has warned its 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch exposed some in plain text on its internal network.

The social network said an internal investigation had found no indication passwords were stolen or misused by insiders.

However, it still urged all users to consider changing their passwords "out of an abundance of caution".

Twitter did not say how many passwords were affected.

It is understood the number was "substantial" and that they were exposed for "several months".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43995168

Fuckers. This, of course, means "passwords on accounts that you used the same userid and password for".

By coincidence, I got a warning today that someone tried (and failed) to log in as me on Wikipedia (a userid that I don't have anywhere else). I've never had a warning about that before.

[Yonnie3]

1. They didn't tell their users.

At least not this user directly. I found out about this on a news website.