BOSTON: Micro-blogging site Twitter said Thursday that it mistakenly reset the passwords of “a large number” of its more than 140 million active users while conducting routine security screening to identify accounts that may have been compromised.
The San Francisco microblogging service and other online services reset passwords all the time if they believe someone has hacked into an account. In this case, the breach was real – the tech news site TechCrunch reported spammers hacked its Twitter account and posted some of those fake get-paid-to-work-from-home offers.
However, Twitter said, users might have to reset even if their accounts weren’t affected: “In this case, we unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those that we believed to have been compromised. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused.”
Twitter isn’t saying exactly how big the problem was or how many accounts the company reset beyond those that were actually compromised. A company spokeswoman said “a very small percentage” of users were notified by e-mail that their passwords were reset.
Source: sfgate
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