Twitter advises that you change your password right now

Twitter has sent out a warning that its users should change their passwords on Twitter and all services they have used this password. This announcement was made in a blog yesterday saying that they recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.

When you set a password for your Twitter account, Twitter uses technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it.

Twitter claims that they have fixed the bug, and their investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone.

This is what Twitter had to say about the bug

“We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter’s system. This allows our systems to validate your account credentials without revealing your password. This is an industry standard.

Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process. We found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again.”

Twitter warns that out of an abundance of caution, users should consider changing their passwords on all services where you’ve used this password.

You can change your Twitter password anytime by going to the password settings page.