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Twitter Plain Text Password Bug Prompts Users for Immediate Password Change
Twitter has warned its 330 million users to immediately change their passwords, as a result of a bug that caused passwords to be logged in plaintext before being hashed. Although Twitter says passwords are stored using the bcrypt hashing algorithm, it seems they were inadvertently placed in an internal log before being hashed. “We mask
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