Twitter on Thursday recommended that users change their passwords after finding a bug in how it stores passwords, meaning they weren't scrambled to protect them from attack.

“When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it. We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We have fixed the bug, and our investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone,” the company said in a post on its official blog.


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