Twitter bug

Data Breach

May 04, 2018

330 Million Twitter Users are Urged to Change Passwords after the Twitter Bug Exposed Them in Plain Text

Twitter urges all of it’s 330 Million users to change the password immediately after a Twitter bug identified in their internal system that exposed the passwords in plain text. To mask the password twitter uses the hashing function “bcrypt” that replaces the actual password to a random number and stored in the Twitter system. Due […]

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Hacked

Jul 25, 2016

Vine Hack: Here’s How This Hacker Downloaded Vine’s Entire Source Code

Short Bytes: An Indian security researcher was able to find Vine’s source code in plain sight. All he had to do was run a pull request of Vine’s publicly visible Docker image and he was even able to host Vine’s website locally. After he reported the bug to Twitter, the company patched the flaw and […]

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