Twitter resets more user passwords than necessary
Twitter Thursday forced many users to reset their passwords following an apparent security breach, but the company says not everyone who received the warning was hacked.
When Twitter believes an account has been compromised, it resets the user's password and sends a notification by e-mail. This time, however, the company says it accidentally reset passwords for more accounts than it needed to.
“We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused,” Twitter said in a statement.
Even so, the security breach was real, at least to some extent. TechCrunch, for instance, was compromised, and posted a spam work-at-home advertisement to its feed Thursday. Twitter hasn't given any sense of how widespread the actual security breach was.
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