Popular social networking service, Twitter, has advised its over 336 million users to change their passwords.
The microblogging website in a statement on Thursday said the development was due to a bug that saved user passwords on an internal log without proper encryption.
The company said there is no evidence that passwords may have been leaked but advised users to change their passwords as a form of “precaution”.
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We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password. https://t.co/RyEDvQOTaZ
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 3, 2018
On his part, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey also advised users to comply with the directive.
We recently discovered a bug where account passwords were being written to an internal log before completing a masking/hashing process. We’ve fixed, see no indication of breach or misuse, and believe it’s important for us to be open about this internal defect. https://t.co/BJezo7Gk00
— jack (@jack) May 3, 2018
To change password, the company advised users to visit their password reset page.