Twitter is forcing millions of users to reset their passwords after reports that the login credentials for nearly 33 million Twitter accounts were being traded on the dark web. The leak was reported by stolen credential repository LeakedSource, which said Twitter was not hacked, but that the credentials were stolen using malware on users’ computers.
According to Twitter, the credentials may also have been amassed through the collection of information from other recent breaches, or a combination of both.
“The recent prevalence of data breaches from other websites is challenging for all websites – not just those breached,” Twitter said in a blog post.
“Attackers mine the exposed username, email and password data, leverage automation, and then attempt to automatically test this login data and passwords against all top websites,” the firm said. For the full article click here
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