over 32 million passwords leaked on twitter

[Bisjac]

im not a friend. i dont use twitter lol.

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[Gytyyhgfffff]

the passwords were hashed this is twitter we're talking about not some messaging website made by a really incompetent programmer

news outlets are making drama out of nothing most likely

[BluetoothBoy]

the passwords were hashed this is twitter we're talking about not some messaging website made by a really incompetent programmer

news outlets are making drama out of nothing most likely

Drama or not though, they were still leaked which is pretty serious.

[SetGaming]

Drama or not though, they were still leaked which is pretty serious.

if they're hashed the likelyhood of anyone cracking them is minimal

[Trogtor]

it's absolutely freaking stupid that Twitter doesn't give you the location and IP when they think someone logged into your account. instead they just tell you "we think someone got info your account!! we don't know where, sorry!!!"

[BluetoothBoy]

if they're hashed the likelyhood of anyone cracking them is minimal

Well yes, but hashed or not, if someone somehow manage to compile a list of plaintext passwords then it's still an issue. The problem is we don't know the details.

[Prokiller10]

thank goodness I don't use twitter

[pch]

Why does a file with 33 million unhashed passwords even exist on their server at all ...?

This makes no sense.

what

i went and googled "twitter leak" and the first result tells me that twitter says it was not a breach on their end. the 32 million were collected via malware and the majority of them were located in russia

http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/08/twitter-hack/

[Gytyyhgfffff]

read this
http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/08/twitter-hack/
cease to be worried about your account
read the above post, didn't see it because this internet connection took like forgetin 3 minutes to post this post

[KristoB]

so it was just malware?

[Daswiruch]

maliwan strikes again

[Teneksi]

Maliwan? Those bastards.

[Willco2]

oh no my unused twitter account has it's password leaked what shall i ever do

[Akio-]

so does this mean that the odds of my account being compromised are 1 in a million? personally I'm not very concerned about my accounts, but I can see why some are. better safe than sorry

[John Freeman]

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change your passwords NOW
https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/twitter-millions-of-accounts-at-risk-of-breach-1465510623#

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