On May 4, more than 330 million active users in Twitter saw a message when they opened Twitter. The platform hopes that users can change their passwords as much as possible. The reason for this is because of a password loophole in Twitter.
Twitter’s chief technology officer stated that they recently discovered a loophole during the operation that caused the user’s password to be stored in Twitter’s internal logs. Twitter is currently fixing this vulnerability and adding some enhancements to avoid it. The emergence of this loophole.
In fact, Twitter has added that this loophole will allow the user's password to directly bypass a series of encryption measures and save it in clear text.
Twitter said that this vulnerability was recently discovered, and they believe that the reason for this is that the password leakage problem is very small, because this internal log has been encrypted, the company employees can not see them.
However, it is undeniable that if hackers sneak into the interior, using plaintext to store passwords will cause serious problems.
In response to this, a Twitter spokesperson stated that this is not a violation, nor is it an abuse of data. They just want users to understand how they can reduce the risk of their own account. Although this is not necessary, they believe that it is correct. Then, this The statement received a strong attack, and the spokesman also had to apologize.
After the time from Facebook, let the public once again pay attention to the issue of personal privacy. At this time, Twitter committed such a problem, obviously not enough to allow users to buy it.
