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Twitter Patches Bug Exposing Details of 10,000 Users

February 23, 2016

Twitter has addressed a privacy bug that exposed email addresses and phone numbers associated with roughly 10,000 user accounts. According to the social media company, the flaw affected its password recovery system for approximately 24 hours last week. Users whose accounts were exposed have been notified.

Twitter pointed out that the vulnerability could not be exploited to obtain passwords or other information that could be used to directly access accounts.

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