It is not normal to happen, but sometimes the Internet services are exposed to problems and security breaches. This is precisely what happened to Twitter over the past week.
It was only a few hours, but during that time the data of its users were exposed and accessible by anyone.
the Twitter fail lasted only 24 hours and was located in the recovery process of the password of the user. So that was reported to the micro-blogging service, was promptly treated and evaluated to be perceived its extent and the impact it had.
From that Twitter could ascertain, during that time it was possible to access the mails and numbers without any control from about 10 thousand users. However it is a small number of users, compared to more than 320 million monthly users it has.
Investigations Twitter conducted revealed that there was no misuse of this bug and that only simple data were revealed such as emails and phone numbers. Targeted users were alerted immediately and was informed of the failure of the exposed data.
Any user que we find to have exploited the bug to access another account’s information will be permanently suspended , and we will Also be engaging law enforcement as appropriate so They may conduct a thorough investigation and bring charges the warranted.
Although not a serious flaw, which would have been exposed passwords and sensitive data of users, Twitter advises that they are used strong passwords and are always requests additional data for a password recovery is made.
it is also given as advice the revised list of applications with access permissions to the Twitter account and are removed from those that are not used or are suspicious.
This was a small failure promptly addressed and resolved, not exposed to severe form user data, but leaves the alert to the possibility of serious problems and the need for users to protect themselves.
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