A bug has hit Twitter, which made the user's password logged visible to the company's employees. Now they all ask for change password.
Thursday evening, Twitter asks all users to change their password on their user profile after the company found that they had logged in the users password so that they were visible to employees in the company.
Twitter has 336 million monthly users, according to the company's last quarterly report.
The company also writes that they do not suspect that any outsiders have received their passwords. Nevertheless, they ask users to change their password both on Twitter and on other services using the same password.
"We've fixed the bug, and our surveys do not indicate any data violations or abuse", it says reading in the blog post where they notified the incident.
- Sorry
At the same time, the company announces that they have done what they can to ensure that this will not happen again.
"We're sorry that this has happened. We understand and appreciate the trust you give us and are committed to making that trust every day, "concludes the company.
The Twitter share fell sharply in the aftermarket when the news became known, but has later recovered slightly and is now down 1.04 percent.
The news will be a few weeks before the EU's Privacy Policy (GDPR) is introduced. The new rules will ensure, inter alia, that businesses must investigate privacy implications by measures that pose a high risk of privacy. The rules for dealing with security breaches also become stricter.
The new EU regulation will also apply to companies outside Europe.
Facebook scandal
Twitter's blog post comes the day after the analysis company Cambridge Analytica chose to shut down the business in the company a lot because of the scandal that hit Facebook in March. Around 87 million should be affected by the scandal where personal data had gone away to Cambridge Analytica.
The information should be received by the company via a personality test application on Facebook. The data should have been used during the US election campaign in 2016 in favor of the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Facebook has received strong criticism from both UK and US authorities as a result of data leakage. Among other things, the giant company has been notified that the application has retrieved personal information for resale, without this being captured by Facebook employees.