{"id":82540,"date":"2018-05-05T15:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T08:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/?p=82540"},"modified":"2018-05-05T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T08:06:28","slug":"twitter-password-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/twitter-password-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT: Twitter Warns 330 Million Users Of A Password Vulnerability!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After the data controversy last month, many social media companies sure don&#8217;t want to walk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/cambridge-analytica-facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> footsteps. Recently, Twitter discovered an internal bug and immediately warned all users about it! Keep reading for more!<\/strong><\/p><div style=\"float: none; display: block; margin: 0 -10px; text-align: center;\"><!-- ph_pricepony_article_top_desktop -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"8052937650\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/g3C0E1525430597.webp 710w,https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/g3C0E1525430597-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/g3C0E1525430597.png\" height=\"250\" width=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/g3C0E1525430597.png 710w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/g3C0E1525430597-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-82542 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"Twitter\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/p>\n<h3>Twitter Warns 330 Million Users Of A Password Vulnerability<\/h3>\n<p>If anyone logged on to Twitter account last night, they must have seen a \u201cKeeping Your Account Secure\u201d notice. To be honest, we don&#8217;t think that everyone went ahead and read the whole thing. However, what the popup window informs users about is quite scary. It basically indicates that the passwords of all 330 million Twitter users might be in danger in text form. This happened due to an internal bug that the company declares to have fixed now.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Twitter also claims that its investigation showed that there was no evidence that the unmasked passwords had violated. However, it still advised all users to change their passwords out of caution. According to the company rep, the bug occurred because of an issue in the hashing process of passwords storing. The hashing process replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are kept in the Twitter system.<\/p><div style=\"float: none; display: block; margin: 0 -10px; text-align: center;\"><!-- ph_pricepony_article_incontent_1 -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7528541080\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<!-- ph_pricepony_article_incontent_2 -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"2964262507\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2.webp 1024w,https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2-300x157.webp 300w,https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2-768x403.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pricepony.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-bug-could-have-allowed-attackers-to-post-under-any-account-516009-2-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-82544 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"Twitter\" decoding=\"async\"  > <\/picture><\/p>\n<p>And from that, it can validate a user\u2019s account information without showing their password. While the company has explained what happened and what the issue was, it hasn\u2019t revealed how many users\u2019 passwords may have possibly been compromised. We don\u2019t even know the bug exposed the passwords for how long and how much time the company took to fix it. However, making the entire userbase to change their passwords indicates to a significant user number.<\/p>\n<h3>Could this become another data controversy?<\/h3>\n<p>After the private data controversy of Facebook happened last month, we advise all users to change their passwords irrespective of Twitter\u2019s claims that no compromise occurred.<\/p>\n<div class=\"31e97817518902a1d132cf665aa26f91\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- ph_pricepony_article_bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4796993490224996\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7613953952\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the data controversy last month, many social media companies sure don&#8217;t want to walk in Facebook footsteps. Recently, Twitter discovered an internal bug and immediately warned all users about it! Keep reading for more! Twitter Warns 330 Million Users Of A Password Vulnerability If anyone logged on to Twitter account last night, they must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twitter Warns 330 Million Users Of A Password Vulnerability!!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After the data controversy last month, many social media companies sure don&#039;t want to walk in Facebook footsteps. 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