336 million users might be affected due to a bug in Twitter

This night, Twitter sent out alarming messages to millions of users asking for password changes. As it turned out, due to an unknown error, some codes were kept unprotected in the internal journal. This could spoil the reputation of several million users. The company solved the problem in the official blog, while CEO Jack Dorsey and Twitter Support retwitted the message after it was released. CTO Paragu Agraval soon apologized for the latest developments. A full explanation of what happened to Twitter has not yet been given, but it is known that this bug allowed users to be protected without protection or a mask caching process bcrypt. The security protocol replaces the password with random numbers or letters, but in its absence, Twitter logs passwords in a test form. It is known that the social network has already fixed the bug and is working to ensure that such incidents no longer occur. How long the bug worked and how many accounts were affected is unknown, but the company claims that confidential information remained on the servers and was not collected by intruders. Twitter also encourages users to change Twitter passwords from other accounts, if used the same, as security. The company is going to introduce two factor authentication and password manager.