Thursday, June 9, 2016

Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked

There is yet another hack for users of popular social media sites to worry about. Hackers may have used malware to collect more than 32 million Twitter login credentials that are now being sold on the dark web. Twitter says that its systems have not been breached.

“We are confident that these usernames and credentials were not obtained by a Twitter data breach – our systems have not been breached. In fact, we’ve been working to help keep accounts protected by checking our data against what’s been shared from recent other password leaks,” a Twitter spokesperson said.

Whether or not the leaked Twitter credentials are authentic, it never hurts to change your password — especially if you use the same password across several sites.

Read the complete article at techcrunch.com/2016/06/08/twitter-hack/.

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