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Twitter has no evidence that anyone’s passwords got stolen from an unhashed password file on their internal network that was there for a lengthy period of time … but they don’t know<\/i> that none of them were.<\/p>\n


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\nTwitter urges all users to change passwords after glitch | Reuters<\/a><\/span>
\nTwitter Inc urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by a process known as “hashing”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Twitter has no evidence that anyone’s passwords got stolen from an unhashed password file on their internal network that was there for a lengthy period of time … but they don’t know that none of them were. Twitter urges all users to change passwords after glitch | Reuters Twitter Inc urged its more than 330 … Continue reading “Because everyone really wanted to change their Twitter password”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,375],"tags":[1555,119,1205],"class_list":["post-136209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-computer-security","tag-password","tag-security","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/twitter-icons-on-a-phone.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10593,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/15\/potpourri_for_200_alex_5.html","url_meta":{"origin":136209,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for $200, Alex","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Dec-06 12:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Can't post ... clowns will eat me ... 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