Twitter

Twitter has advised all of its 330 million+ users to update their passwords following the discovery of a fault that left them in plain text on internal servers.

The number of impacted accounts was not disclosed by the company, but Reuters was informed by a source familiar with the company's response that it was a sizable number.

According to the corporation, over 330 million people have been affected, and just one internal system had plain text data kept on it.

Twitter declared that the security flaw had been resolved and that an internal inquiry had been launched to determine whether insiders had misused user data.

Source: https://securityaffairs.com/72109/data-breach/twitter-data-leak.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/twitter

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"linkid": "twitter",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "05/2018",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

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                        'industry': 'Social Media',
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                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'customer_advisories': 'All users advised to update their passwords',
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                                               'Over 330 million'],
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 'description': 'Twitter has advised all of its 330 million+ users to update '
                'their passwords following the discovery of a fault that left '
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 'investigation_status': 'Internal inquiry launched to determine whether '
                         'insiders had misused user data',
 'references': [{'source': 'Reuters'}],
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              'containment_measures': 'The security flaw has been resolved'},
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