{"id":9728,"date":"2018-05-04T23:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&p=9728"},"modified":"2018-05-04T23:58:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T05:58:29","slug":"twitter-urges-over-300-million-users-to-change-passwords","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/twitter-urges-over-300-million-users-to-change-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Urges Over 300 Million Users To Change Passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twitter\u00a0on Thursday urged its more than 300 million users to change their passwords, saying they had been unintentionally \u201cunmasked\u201d inside the company by a software bug.\u00a0The social media site said it found no sign that hackers accessed the exposed data, but advised users to change their passwords to be safe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Twitter\u00a0practice is to store passwords encrypted, or \u201chashed,\u201d so they are masked to even people inside the company,\u00a0Twitter\u00a0chief technology officer Parag Agrawal explained in a blog post.<\/p>\n

\u201cDue to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based internet company did not specify how many passwords were exposed or how long the glitch made data vulnerable to snooping.<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we ask that you consider changing your password on all services where you\u2019ve used this password,\u201d Agrawal told users.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very sorry this happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The stumble comes as the sector faces intense scrutiny over the protection of personal data online, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw information from tens of millions of Facebook users hijacked and misused.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u00a0shares ebbed about a percent to $30.36 in after-market trades that followed word of the password mishap.<\/p>\n

Better to change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Going public with a security slip and getting users to take precautions is preferable to remaining mum and hoping no data was taken, according to independent technology industry analyst Rob Enderle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen in doubt, it is better to have people change passwords than to be wrong,\u201d Enderle said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith security, it is always better to err on the side of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The analyst thought it unlikely people would abandon\u00a0Twitter\u00a0simply for being asked to change passwords.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpenly admitting our mistakes quickly, learning, and moving on,\u201d\u00a0Twitter\u00a0co-founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey said in a tweet that including a link to Agrawal\u2019s blog post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out of the red<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter\u00a0last week reported its second consecutive quarterly profit, boosting the outlook for the platform after years in the red.<\/p>\n

The social network earned $61 million in the first three months of the year, helped by strong growth in advertising revenue and modest gains in users.<\/p>\n

First quarter revenues rose 21 percent from a year ago to $665 million, and the key metric of monthly active users increased by six million from late last year to 336 million.<\/p>\n

Dorsey said while discussing earnings that recent changes made to the service have helped \u201cengagement,\u201d a measure of how often people turn to the social network and how long they stay.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Twitter\u00a0has built a solid core base of celebrities, politicians and journalists, it has failed to match the broader appeal of Facebook and other social platforms, hurting its ability to bring in ad revenues.<\/p>\n

The network has stepped up efforts to boost its user base and engagement, adding streaming video partnerships, doubling the character limit on tweets to 280 and making it easier to create \u201ctweetstorms\u201d by stringing messaging together.<\/p>\n

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