Twitter urges password reset for all users

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Twitter urges password reset for all users
Twitter is urging its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a bug caused some of them to be stored in plain text in an internal log. The social network said it had fixed the bug and that an internal investigation had found no indication passwords were stolen or ...

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