A new security incident shakes this social network
The social network Twitter
has just announced the finding of a security flaw that provoked public exposure
of the supposedly privacy protected tweets after making some changes in user
accounts, as reported by experts in network security and ethical hacking from
the International Institute of Cyber Security.
Because of this flaw, any user who has updated their
email address linked to their Twitter account between November 2014 and January
2019 may see their private posts exposed, as mentioned in the company’s
announcement.
Twitter notes that it has begun a process of
notification to all users potentially affected by this incident, adding that
their network
security teams have begun to activate protection measures for Android
users, whose accounts had disabled these protections in an unexpected way.
In addition, the social network mentioned that
a public alert will be published about this incident after concluding an
internal investigation, as it is not yet known how many people may have been
affected accurately.
“We deeply regret that this has happened; we
are conducting a complete review to help prevent this from happening again to
our users” mentions the Twitter release.
As an additional measure, network security
experts recommend Twitter users to verify their privacy settings to make sure
what can be shown in their profile.
Twitter claims that the security flaw was corrected
since January 14th, and ensures that it will share more information as soon as
it is available.
Users of the Twitter version for iOS or the web
version have not been affected by this incident.
